Coaching practices for Scamper a Systematic Creativity Technique After a Loss

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

  • I have a hunch somebody, somewhere, has already cracked a problem shaped just like mine
  • This has slowly piled up with so many steps and features that it feels heavy, and I’m sure some of them are just there out of habit
  • When something I make doesn’t land, it doesn’t feel like the idea missed
  • I’ve been hammering at this problem for hours past the point of any progress, white-knuckling it because stepping away feels like giving up
  • I keep treating one piece of this as a given

Practices that may help

  1. SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
    SCAMPER is a structured brainstorming checklist that prompts you to Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify/Magnify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, and Reverse/Rearrange elements of an existing product, process, or problem. It is a practitioner-derived tool with no randomized trial evidence but a strong theoretical grounding in divergent thinking research — it works by forcing systematic exploration of an idea space that unguided brainstorming leaves partially uncovered.
  2. Adapt
    Ask: what could be adapted or borrowed from another context, industry, or era to solve this problem?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  3. Eliminate
    Ask: what could be removed, simplified, or reduced without losing what makes this valuable?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  4. Reframe failure as information, not verdict
    Build a personal rule: "I got data" replaces "I failed" after every attempt that didn’t land.
    Creative Confidence, Made Practical
  5. Abandon the work for a defined period and return fresh
    Structured incubation — not avoidance — is an active creative tool.
    Oblique Strategies, Made Practical
  6. Substitute
    Ask: what component, material, person, process, or rule could be swapped for something different?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  7. Change exactly one element and observe what shifts
    Alter a single variable at a time to see how the rest of the system responds.
    Oblique Strategies, Made Practical
  8. Repeat, loop, or return to an old idea deliberately
    "Use an old idea" — something already in your history may work now that it could not before.
    Oblique Strategies, Made Practical
  9. Deliberately explore the most unlikely combinations
    The combinations intuition skips are precisely the ones the method is designed to find.
    Morphological Analysis, Made Practical
  10. Keep side projects and play
    Protect a low-stakes project with no goal — the “waste” is where the real ideas surface.
    Steal Like an Artist, in Practice

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