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

  • 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
  • I’ve hit a wall where every new idea is just a slight rewording of the last one
  • I have a hunch somebody, somewhere, has already cracked a problem shaped just like mine
  • Every new project I start from a blank page as if I’ve never done anything like it, even though I’ve solved half of it before
  • I need to come up with a whole range of options — names, angles, ways in — and staring at the blank page I keep circling the same two or three.

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. Eliminate
    Ask: what could be removed, simplified, or reduced without losing what makes this valuable?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  3. Use SCAMPER and other prompts to vary ideas
    Apply structured prompts (substitute, combine, adapt, modify, etc.) to push ideas in new directions.
    Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas
  4. Adapt
    Ask: what could be adapted or borrowed from another context, industry, or era to solve this problem?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  5. Express work in reusable intermediate packets
    Break your creative output into small, reusable units — outlines, summaries, frameworks — that can be combined and repurposed.
    Building a Second Brain (BASB), Made Practical
  6. Walk to generate ideas (divergent thinking)
    When you need many options, walk while you brainstorm.
    Walking for Creativity
  7. 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
  8. Defer all judgment during ideation
    Separate the generating phase from the evaluating phase — they cannot run simultaneously without killing output.
    Creative Confidence, Made Practical
  9. Harvest and cluster ideas after the session
    The generation phase is worthless without a systematic harvest: sort, name, and prioritize the output.
    Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
  10. 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

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