Coaching practices for I Have a Hunch Somebody Somewhere Has Already Cracked a Problem Shaped Just Like Mine in Nature in Some Other Industry Ages Ago and If I Could Find it I Could Borrow How They Did it

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• I have a hunch somebody, somewhere, has already cracked a problem shaped just like mine
• 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 keep feeling like the deep shape of my problem
• I’ve been treating this like a problem nobody’s ever solved, pouring original effort into it
• I’m banging my head against this problem looking for the answer only inside my own field, sure there isn’t one

Practices that may help

1. Adapt
   Ask: what could be adapted or borrowed from another context, industry, or era to solve this problem?
   SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
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. 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
4. Calibrate whether the problem requires invention or just search
   Determine whether your problem is already solved elsewhere before investing in original invention.
   TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions
5. Transfer solutions across domains by mapping the structure of the problem
   When stuck, search for problems in other domains with the same relational structure.
   Analogical Reasoning
6. 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
7. Recognize system archetypes: the recurring plots
   Learn the handful of common structural patterns that produce the same behaviors in very different settings.
   Systems Thinking
8. 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
9. Seek analogies from maximally distant domains
   The further the analogy’s domain from your problem, the more likely it is to break your current representation.
   Constraint Relaxation: Escaping the Walls You Built Yourself
10. Put to other uses
    Ask: who else could use this, and what problems could it solve if applied somewhere entirely different?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique

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