Coaching practices for The First Decent Idea Shows Up and I Grab it and Call it Done but It's Nagging at Me That It's the Obvious One the Thing Anyone Would Think of and I Suspect the Better Idea is Sitting Just Past it If I Didn't Stop So Soon

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• The first decent idea shows up and I grab it and call it done
• I come up with three or four obvious options, one of them seems fine, and I just grab it
• I grab the first idea that pops up and start poking holes in it immediately, so I never get more than two or three options on the table
• I stop brainstorming the moment I have a few decent ideas, satisfied too early
• There’s one idea I fell in love with early and now everything else gets measured against it and found wanting

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Go for quantity first
   Aim for a high number of ideas; the best ones tend to come later in the list.
   Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas
3. Ideate — generate options before judging
   Produce many candidate solutions, deferring evaluation until you have quantity.
   Design Thinking, Step by Step
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. Cultivate the slow hunch: let ideas develop over months, not hours
   Resist the urge to act on a half-formed idea; keep it alive in a notebook until adjacent pieces arrive to complete it.
   The Adjacent Possible, Made Practical
8. Set a volume quota before judging
   Commit to a minimum number of drafts or ideas before allowing yourself to evaluate any.
   Quantity Over Quality: How More Drafts Produce Better Work
9. Defer judgment during generation
   Generate ideas with no criticism, then evaluate in a separate pass.
   Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas
10. Go for quantity over quality
    Set a raw count target — the goal is many ideas, not good ones.
    Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical

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