Helpful Heuristics Handbook

<p>As set out in the foreword's in other publications in our 'Dream Enabler' series for as long as we</p><p>can remember the obsessive study of great thinkers has been our favourite pastime.</p><p>One aspect of this has been our evolving approach to 'common placing' - that is the constant</p><p>collection and ordering of the ideas of others.</p><p>Common placing has evolved for us from simply hoarding as many of our favourite books as</p><p>possible to cataloguing separately the key extracts re-cataloguing extracts into disciplines</p><p>and themes and then to summarising the extracts into a centralised personal 'bible' loosely</p><p>titled 'brain food'.</p><p>This release the 'Helpful Heuristics Handbook' sets out some of the content that indirectly</p><p>inspired us to create other books in The Dream Enabler series.</p><p>More broadly the heuristics featured here have also had an evolving and increasingly important</p><p>place in our day to day thinking and decision making.</p><p>As heuristics are designed to be 'rules of thumb' or short cuts to making reliably useful</p><p>decisions quickly - without any focus on the underlying science; this handbook adopts the</p><p>same approach.</p><p>In relation to any heuristics in this handbook that are not self-explanatory - or indeed that you</p><p>would like more information or context about - please contact us.</p><p>The other alternative of course is to investigate yourself via that ubiquitous heuristic tool (not</p><p>actually otherwise mentioned in this book); namely leveraging Dr Google.</p><p>Or as we were gently reminded recently: 'LMGTFY' is a thing; acknowledging the irony that you</p><p>may need to Google this...</p>