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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
- Even after all this work I notice I’m gravitating right back to the safe, familiar combinations and skipping the strange ones
- I have two separate things that each work fine on their own, and I keep sensing that the real idea is in mashing them into one
- I keep treating one piece of this as a given
- 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
- 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. - Adapt
Ask: what could be adapted or borrowed from another context, industry, or era to solve this problem?
SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique - Deliberately explore the most unlikely combinations
The combinations intuition skips are precisely the ones the method is designed to find.
Morphological Analysis, Made Practical - Combine
Ask: what two things — purposes, materials, functions, or ideas — could be merged to create something new?
SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique - Substitute
Ask: what component, material, person, process, or rule could be swapped for something different?
SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique - Walk to generate ideas (divergent thinking)
When you need many options, walk while you brainstorm.
Walking for Creativity - 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 - Eliminate
Ask: what could be removed, simplified, or reduced without losing what makes this valuable?
SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique - Keep a "what if" journal for speculative combinations
Write out daily "what if X and Y were combined" prompts — and take the speculative ones seriously.
Combinatorial Creativity, Made Practical - 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
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