Coaching practices for Scamper Modify Magnify

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  • Everything I come up with sits in this safe middle
  • 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
  • This one thing has swallowed my whole field of view
  • This one problem has swallowed my whole field of vision

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. Modify and Magnify
    Ask: what happens if you make an element bigger, smaller, faster, slower, stronger, or weaker?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  3. Adapt
    Ask: what could be adapted or borrowed from another context, industry, or era to solve this problem?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  4. Eliminate
    Ask: what could be removed, simplified, or reduced without losing what makes this valuable?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  5. The spatial zoom-out
    Mentally lift yourself out of the room and rise until you see the whole world spread below you.
    The View from Above
  6. The view from above
    Zoom out — picture your situation from high above, in the scale of the city, the world, and time.
    Stoicism, as a Set of Practices
  7. 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
  8. Strengthen corrective loops and weaken runaway ones
    Find the balancing loop that should be correcting the problem — and ask why it is too weak.
    Leverage Points
  9. Substitute
    Ask: what component, material, person, process, or rule could be swapped for something different?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  10. Combine
    Ask: what two things — purposes, materials, functions, or ideas — could be merged to create something new?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique

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