Coaching practices for Every Approach I Come Up with Sounds Like Me Because I Keep Ruling Out Anything That Doesn't Feel Like Something I'd Do I Want to Borrow Someone Else's Eyes for a Minute and Reach Options My Own Self Image Won't Let Me See

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• Every approach I come up with sounds like me, because I keep ruling out anything that doesn’t feel like something I’d do
• Every idea I come up with is basically a tweak on what someone’s already done
• Stuck at a hard choice, "can I even do this?" just loops in my head and freezes me
• I’m stuck on one specific problem and I keep circling the same three obvious options my field always reaches for
• Every idea I generate for this is the obvious one, the one anyone in my field would land on, and none of it feels fresh

Practices that may help

1. Ask what a specific other person would do
   Step into a named other’s perspective to access approaches you would not generate as yourself.
   Oblique Strategies, Made Practical
2. 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
3. Borrow an identity temporarily by asking "what would [person] do?"
   Temporarily adopting a role model’s identity in a specific context lowers the friction of acting as they would.
   Identity Priming, Made Practical
4. 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
5. Treat creativity as combination
   Make new work by joining two existing things that haven’t been joined before.
   Steal Like an Artist, in Practice
6. Lead ideation with deep user empathy
   Understand the person you are designing for before generating a single solution.
   Creative Confidence, Made Practical
7. Systematic alternatives: generate three more explanations before deciding
   Force yourself to generate at least three alternative explanations or interpretations before committing to the first plausible one.
   Lateral Thinking, Made Practical
8. Deliberately explore the most unlikely combinations
   The combinations intuition skips are precisely the ones the method is designed to find.
   Morphological Analysis, Made Practical
9. Generate Options — explore the full range of possibilities before committing
   Invite the person to generate as many options as possible before evaluating any of them.
   The GROW Model: Coaching Conversations That Actually Move People
10. State the goal, then invert it
    Ask "what would guarantee I fail at this?" before asking how to succeed.
    Inversion: Solve Problems Backward

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