Coaching practices for I Stop Brainstorming the Moment I Have a Few Decent Ideas Satisfied Too Early and I'm Realizing the Genuinely Original Ones Only Show Up Well After the Obvious First Handful Are Exhausted Exactly Where I Always Quit

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• I stop brainstorming the moment I have a few decent ideas, satisfied too early
• I come up with three or four obvious options, one of them seems fine, and I just grab it
• 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
• I come up with three or four decent ideas and then just stop, satisfied, like that’s the whole pool

Practices that may help

1. 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
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. 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
4. 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
5. Go for quantity over quality
   Set a raw count target — the goal is many ideas, not good ones.
   Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
6. 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
7. Separate divergence from convergence sessions
   Keep idea generation and idea selection in separate sittings — never mix the modes.
   Quantity Over Quality: How More Drafts Produce Better Work
8. Ideate — generate options before judging
   Produce many candidate solutions, deferring evaluation until you have quantity.
   Design Thinking, Step by Step
9. Defer judgment during generation
   Generate ideas with no criticism, then evaluate in a separate pass.
   Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas
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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