Coaching practices for Everything I Know How to Think with Comes From My Own Field So Every Problem Ends Up Looking Like the Kind of Problem I Already Know How to Solve I Want to Start Deliberately Stealing One Good Idea at a Time From Disciplines I've Never Worked in

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• Everything I know how to think with comes from my own field, so every problem ends up looking like the kind of problem I already know how to solve
• I feel like I’m staring at this from inside my own little field with no fresh ideas, but I have a nagging sense that somebody, somewhere
• I only ever read and learn inside my own specialty, and my ideas have started to feel inbred and predictable
• Everything I come up with is the same kind of answer everyone in my field would give
• Every idea I come up with is basically a tweak on what someone’s already done

Practices that may help

1. Collect models deliberately from fields outside your specialty
   Choose one model per quarter from a discipline you do not work in and learn it well enough to explain it.
   Mental Models: Charlie Munger’s Latticework Approach
2. Import a frame from a different domain
   Describe your problem as if it were a challenge in an unrelated field, then steal the solutions from that field.
   Problem Reframing: Solving the Right Problem First
3. Intentional field-crossing
   Regularly study a field entirely outside your domain and ask what it could teach yours.
   The Medici Effect: Innovation at the Intersection
4. Cross-pollinate from distant domains
   Pull ideas and analogies from fields unrelated to your problem.
   Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas
5. Reason up from the parts, not by analogy
   Build the solution from the fundamentals you kept, rather than copying an existing template.
   First-Principles Thinking, Made Usable
6. Ask "what else is this like?" to find the hidden frame
   Identify the deeper structure of your problem and look for problems with the same structure in different domains.
   Combinatorial Creativity, Made Practical
7. Borrow the conventions of a different field and apply them to yours
   Take the organizing principles of an adjacent discipline and treat them as constraints for your creative problem — the unfamiliar conventions force beginner perception.
   The Beginner’s Mind in Creative Practice
8. Use forced analogy to generate unexpected solutions
   Randomly pair your problem with an unrelated domain and mine the analogy for ideas.
   Combinatorial Creativity, Made Practical
9. Build a deliberately broad input diet
   Expose yourself to domains far outside your expertise to stock the combinatorial engine.
   Combinatorial Creativity, Made Practical
10. Reframe problems using cross-domain language
    Describe your problem in a different field’s vocabulary — then use that vocabulary to search for solutions.
    The Medici Effect: Innovation at the Intersection

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