Coaching practices for I Land on the First Idea That Seems Okay and Immediately Want to Run with it and Stop There I Never Push Past Good Enough to See Whether the Third or Fourth One Would Have Been the One I Actually Wanted

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• I land on the first idea that seems okay and immediately want to run with it and stop there
• I come up with three or four obvious options, one of them seems fine, and I just grab it
• There’s one idea I fell in love with early and now everything else gets measured against it and found wanting
• I grab the first decent idea that shows up and run with it, because it seems good enough and I’m impatient
• The first decent idea shows up and I grab it and call it done

Practices that may help

1. 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
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. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Ideate — generate options before judging
   Produce many candidate solutions, deferring evaluation until you have quantity.
   Design Thinking, Step by Step
7. 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
8. 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
9. Defer judgment during generation
   Generate ideas with no criticism, then evaluate in a separate pass.
   Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas
10. Prototype to think, not to finish
    Build or sketch something rough specifically to learn what you actually want.
    Quantity Over Quality: How More Drafts Produce Better Work

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