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• There’s one idea I fell in love with early and now everything else gets measured against it and found wanting
• I’m straining to invent something brand new when I have a graveyard of half-finished ideas I abandoned years ago
• I get these half-formed ideas that feel like they could be something, but I either jump on them too early and they fizzle into the obvious, or I lose them entirely
• The first decent idea shows up and I grab it and call it done
• Every idea I come up with is basically a tweak on what someone’s already done

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Repeat, loop, or return to an old idea deliberately
   "Use an old idea" — something already in your history may work now that it could not before.
   Oblique Strategies, Made Practical
3. 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
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. 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. Prototype — make it cheap and real
   Build the roughest possible version that lets you learn something specific.
   Design Thinking, Step by Step
7. Apply reverse sunk-cost thinking to existing commitments
   Ask "Would I commit to this today, knowing what I know now?" for every ongoing obligation.
   Essentialism: The Art of Eliminating the Non-Essential
8. Develop interest, don’t just wait to find it
   Deepen passion through engagement over time rather than expecting instant fit.
   Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed
9. 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
10. 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

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