Coaching practices for I Grab the First Decent Idea That Shows Up and Run with it Because it Seems Good Enough and I'm Impatient and I Keep Wondering If the Genuinely Surprising One Was Sitting Just a Few Ideas Deeper Behind the Obvious Ones I Never Pushed Past

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• I grab the first decent idea that shows up and run with it, because it seems good enough and I’m impatient
• I come up with three or four obvious options, one of them seems fine, and I just grab it
• The first decent idea shows up and I grab it and call it done
• I stop brainstorming the moment I have a few decent ideas, satisfied too early
• I grab the first idea that pops up and start poking holes in it immediately, so I never get more than two or three options on the table

Practices that may help

1. 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
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. 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. 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
5. Ideate — generate options before judging
   Produce many candidate solutions, deferring evaluation until you have quantity.
   Design Thinking, Step by Step
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Go for quantity over quality
   Set a raw count target — the goal is many ideas, not good ones.
   Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
10. Deliberately generate bad ideas first
    Start with the worst ideas you can think of — bad ideas are faster to generate and reveal hidden assumptions.
    Quantity Over Quality: How More Drafts Produce Better Work

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