Coaching practices for Almost Everyone I Talk to Does Roughly What I Do So We Just Keep Recycling the Same Ideas Back at Each Other I Want to Genuinely Connect with People in Other Disciplines and Worlds Because the Freshest Input is Never Going to Come From Inside My Own Echo Chamber

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• Almost everyone I talk to does roughly what I do, so we just keep recycling the same ideas back at each other
• Everyone I talk to does basically what I do and reads what I read, so my ideas just keep recycling the same stuff
• Everything I come up with is the same kind of answer everyone in my field would give
• I only ever read and learn inside my own specialty, and my ideas have started to feel inbred and predictable
• I’m so deep in how my field does things that I can’t even see the assumptions I’m carrying anymore, and when I bring the problem to colleagues they just nod along

Practices that may help

1. Build a diverse network deliberately
   Connect with people in different disciplines, cultures, and functions — not primarily with people who do what you do.
   The Medici Effect: Innovation at the Intersection
2. 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
3. Cross-pollinate from distant domains
   Pull ideas and analogies from fields unrelated to your problem.
   Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas
4. Intentional field-crossing
   Regularly study a field entirely outside your domain and ask what it could teach yours.
   The Medici Effect: Innovation at the Intersection
5. Seek conversations with people from radically different fields
   Let a conversation partner from another domain ask the naive questions that expose your hidden assumptions.
   Combinatorial Creativity, Made Practical
6. Build a deliberately broad input diet
   Expose yourself to domains far outside your expertise to stock the combinatorial engine.
   Combinatorial Creativity, Made Practical
7. Treat creativity as combination
   Make new work by joining two existing things that haven’t been joined before.
   Steal Like an Artist, in Practice
8. Use similarity to connect, not to seek validation
   Seeking people who agree with everything you believe produces an echo chamber, not a support network.
   The Similarity-Attraction Effect (Donn Byrne)
9. Design for serendipitous encounters
   Put yourself in environments where unexpected, cross-cluster contact is structurally likely.
   The Strength of Weak Ties
10. 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

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