Coaching practices 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 I Think I'm Only Ever Connecting Things That Are Already Close Together

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• 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
• Everything I come up with is the same kind of answer everyone in my field would give
• The first decent idea shows up and I grab it and call it done
• Everyone I talk to does basically what I do and reads what I read, so my ideas just keep recycling the same stuff
• I treat every idea on my list as its own separate thing, judging each one solo, and it never occurs to me to mash two of them together

Practices that may help

1. Treat creativity as combination
   Make new work by joining two existing things that haven’t been joined before.
   Steal Like an Artist, in Practice
2. Cross-pollinate from distant domains
   Pull ideas and analogies from fields unrelated to your problem.
   Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas
3. 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
4. Build a liquid network: expose yourself to people at the edge of different fields
   Seek out conversations and environments where ideas from adjacent fields are in the air — most good ideas are collisions, not inventions.
   The Adjacent Possible, Made Practical
5. Combine and build on others’ ideas
   Treat every idea as a building block — the best ideas in a session are usually hybrids.
   Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
6. 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
7. Deliberately explore the most unlikely combinations
   The combinations intuition skips are precisely the ones the method is designed to find.
   Morphological Analysis, Made Practical
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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

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