Coaching practices for Everything I Let Myself Put Down is Safe and Sensible the Second Something Strange or Impossible Sounding Pops Up I Dismiss it Before It's Even on the Page and I Suspect That Reflex Toward Only the Reasonable is Exactly Why Nothing I Make Ever Feels Original

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• Everything I let myself put down is safe and sensible
• I grab the first decent idea that shows up and run with it, because it seems good enough and I’m impatient
• Whatever I make, my hand goes straight to the same safe, obvious version every time
• The first decent idea shows up and I grab it and call it done
• Every single thing I try feels like a referendum on whether I’m any good, so I cling to the first passable version rather than risk a worse one

Practices that may help

1. Welcome wild and outrageous ideas
   Explicitly invite the absurd — it’s easier to tame a wild idea than to enliven a dull one.
   Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
2. Quantity first: generate the most ideas possible before evaluating any
   The best way to have a good idea is to have many ideas — originality rises with volume, so generate recklessly before selecting.
   The Beginner’s Mind in Creative Practice
3. Impose a deliberate constraint
   Add an artificial limit (a rule, a shape, a forbidden option) to block the obvious path.
   Why Constraints Boost Creativity
4. The obvious veto: reject the first three ideas before keeping any
   Force yourself to generate more by vetoing the first plausible ideas — they are almost always the most obvious ones.
   Deliberate Constraints, Made Practical
5. Experiment without attachment to outcome
   Make many small experiments and treat each result as information — not as success or failure.
   The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making
6. 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
7. Collect everything that resonates — without editing
   Build a practice of gathering ideas, images, sounds, and fragments without evaluating whether they are "good enough."
   The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making
8. Kill your darlings deliberately
   Identify the idea you’re most attached to, then set it aside first.
   Quantity Over Quality: How More Drafts Produce Better Work
9. Maximize quantity of ideas before evaluating
   Set an explicit quantity target — generate at least 20 ideas before reviewing any of them.
   The Medici Effect: Innovation at the Intersection
10. Steal, steal, then remix
    Collect the best examples you can find, then combine and mutate them into something new.
    Quantity Over Quality: How More Drafts Produce Better Work

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