Coaching practices for Remote Associates Creativity Breadth

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

• I only ever read and learn inside my own specialty, and my ideas have started to feel inbred and predictable
• My mind keeps running down the exact same worn grooves on this problem
• Almost everyone I talk to does roughly what I do, so we just keep recycling the same ideas back at each other
• Everyone I talk to does basically what I do and reads what I read, so my ideas just keep recycling the same stuff
• Every approach I come up with sounds like me, because I keep ruling out anything that doesn’t feel like something I’d do

Practices that may help

1. Intentional field-crossing
   Regularly study a field entirely outside your domain and ask what it could teach yours.
   The Medici Effect: Innovation at the Intersection
2. Break associative barriers through randomness
   Introduce random stimuli — words, objects, images — into your problem-solving sessions and force connections.
   The Medici Effect: Innovation at the Intersection
3. Build a diverse network deliberately
   Connect with people in different disciplines, cultures, and functions — not primarily with people who do what you do.
   The Medici Effect: Innovation at the Intersection
4. Build a liquid network: expose yourself to people at the edge of different fields
   Seek out conversations and environments where ideas from adjacent fields are in the air — most good ideas are collisions, not inventions.
   The Adjacent Possible, Made Practical
5. 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
6. Using openness to calibrate your learning approach
   High openness means you need variety and novelty to stay engaged; low openness means deep, bounded practice outperforms breadth.
   The Big Five Personality Model
7. Build a deliberately broad input diet
   Expose yourself to domains far outside your expertise to stock the combinatorial engine.
   Combinatorial Creativity, Made Practical
8. Actively connect ideas across projects and topics
   When working on a project, deliberately search your notes for ideas from unrelated domains that might apply.
   Building a Second Brain (BASB), Made Practical
9. Cross-pollinate from distant domains
   Pull ideas and analogies from fields unrelated to your problem.
   Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas
10. Combine and build on others’ ideas
    Treat every idea as a building block — the best ideas in a session are usually hybrids.
    Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical

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