Coaching practices for Perspective Taking Creativity

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• Every approach I come up with sounds like me, because I keep ruling out anything that doesn’t feel like something I’d do
• Everything I make comes out in the same shape because the rules of my field are so baked into me I can’t even see them anymore
• Even when I make time for myself I pick something "worthwhile"
• I can’t see my own work for what it actually is anymore
• I take my health, my safe home, water from the tap completely for granted

Practices that may help

1. Ask what a specific other person would do
   Step into a named other’s perspective to access approaches you would not generate as yourself.
   Oblique Strategies, Made Practical
2. Borrow the conventions of a different field and apply them to yours
   Take the organizing principles of an adjacent discipline and treat them as constraints for your creative problem — the unfamiliar conventions force beginner perception.
   The Beginner’s Mind in Creative Practice
3. Choose low-agenda, high-curiosity destinations
   Pick somewhere that interests your inner child, not somewhere impressive — curiosity, not accomplishment, is the fuel.
   The Artist Date, Made Practical
4. Approach your own work with beginner’s mind
   When evaluating your work, try to experience it as a stranger would — without the story of how it was made.
   The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making
5. Take the perspective of someone without what you have
   Vividly inhabit the perspective of someone who lacks something you currently take for granted.
   Negative Visualization for Gratitude: The Stoic Path to Appreciation
6. Take their perspective accurately
   Build a precise model of how the situation looks from their side, not a caricature.
   Tactical Empathy
7. Run a structured team morphological session
   The method is most powerful when multiple perspectives populate the dimensions and values.
   Morphological Analysis, Made Practical
8. Write for an ignorant reader: explain it to someone who knows nothing
   Describe your creative work to an imaginary person who has no context — the explanation forces you to see what you have been assuming.
   The Beginner’s Mind in Creative Practice
9. Steal, steal, then remix
   Collect the best examples you can find, then combine and mutate them into something new.
   Quantity Over Quality: How More Drafts Produce Better Work
10. Introduce a random constraint when stuck
    Arbitrary limits force a new approach because your habitual one is blocked.
    Oblique Strategies, Made Practical

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