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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
  • 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 only ever see this thing as the one job I built it for, but I keep wondering who else
  • Even after all this work I notice I’m gravitating right back to the safe, familiar combinations and skipping the strange ones
  • 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

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. 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
  4. Put to other uses
    Ask: who else could use this, and what problems could it solve if applied somewhere entirely different?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  5. Deliberately explore the most unlikely combinations
    The combinations intuition skips are precisely the ones the method is designed to find.
    Morphological Analysis, Made Practical
  6. Eliminate
    Ask: what could be removed, simplified, or reduced without losing what makes this valuable?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  7. Reverse and Rearrange
    Ask: what if the sequence were inverted, the roles were swapped, or the normal order were reversed?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  8. Substitute
    Ask: what component, material, person, process, or rule could be swapped for something different?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  9. Use genius mapping in onboarding
    Surface a new hire’s geniuses early so you design their role around energy, not just skills.
    The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
  10. 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

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