Coaching practices for Concept Fan De Bono

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• I keep generating "alternatives" but they’re all just minor variations of the same basic approach
• I set up an automatic donation to a big cause and felt almost nothing
• When someone I love is excited about something, I want to actually light up with them and draw it out instead of just saying “nice” and moving on
• I’m pouring all my energy into winning over the people who don’t buy in, and meanwhile the few who already get it and go above and beyond are quietly running on empty because I never invest in them.
• There’s someone I want to get closer to and my instinct is always to do something nice for them to win them over, and it never quite clicks

Practices that may help

1. Concept fan: map the solution space before picking a direction
   Expand from specific solutions to the broader concept behind them, then generate alternatives at the concept level.
   Lateral Thinking, Made Practical
2. Building a Second Brain (BASB), Made Practical
   Building a Second Brain (BASB) is Tiago Forte’s system for capturing, organizing, distilling, and expressing ideas using a personal knowledge management (PKM) system. The four-step CODE framework (Capture, Organize, Distill, Express) structures an external system that reduces the cognitive load of remembering and re-finding information. BASB is a practitioner framework grounded in cognitive-offloading and note-taking research rather than a formally tested protocol.
3. Give to a named, visible person
   Spend on someone specific enough that you can see or imagine their response.
   Prosocial Spending: Why Giving Boosts Happiness
4. Respond active-constructively
   Meet good news with genuine, engaged enthusiasm — ask questions and savor it together.
   Active-Constructive Responding, Made Practical
5. Communicate your Why to those who already believe it
   The most efficient expansion is not converting skeptics — it is finding people who already share your belief.
   Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose
6. Ask for a small, genuine favor from someone you want to build rapport with
   Request something real and modest — help you actually need — not a pretext.
   The Ben Franklin Effect, Made Practical
7. Become the connector in every room
   Make it your personal brand to know who should meet whom.
   Never Eat Alone: Building a Real Network
8. The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
   Patrick Lencioni’s Working Genius model describes six activities — Wonder, Invention, Discernment, Galvanizing, Enablement, and Tenacity — that are required to complete any meaningful work. Each person finds two of these energizing (geniuses), two draining (frustrations), and two neutral (competencies). The model is a practitioner framework; it lacks independent peer-reviewed validation, but it provides a practically useful vocabulary for team role awareness.
9. The Oxygen Advantage, Made Practical
   The Oxygen Advantage is Patrick McKeown’s framework for improving athletic and cognitive performance by increasing CO2 tolerance and optimizing breathing mechanics through nasal breathing, breath holds, and simulated altitude training. The underlying physiology (Bohr effect, CO2 chemosensitivity) is well established; specific protocol outcomes in trained athletes have promising but limited RCT support.
10. Share one good thing with another person
    Tell one person about a good thing that happened — sharing amplifies the positive experience and builds connection.
    Three Good Things: The Evidence-Based Gratitude Practice

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