Coaching practices for Who Should Evaluate Ideas
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- We decide things by group vote and the loud idea-lovers always carry the room, while the one person whose gut is usually right about what won’t work gets drowned out
- The second an idea pops up I’ve already told myself why it won’t work, so it dies before I’ve even finished thinking it
- The moment an idea forms, this critic in my head pounces and kills it before I’ve even written it down, so I end up staring at a blank page with nothing because nothing was ever allowed to survive long enough to grow.
- An idea barely forms in my head before I’ve already torn it apart
- Every time I try to brainstorm, the critic and the dreamer are talking over each other
Practices that may help
- Route decisions to your Discernment genius
Evaluation decisions drain Wonder and Tenacity geniuses — protect your evaluators and route decisions to them.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - Defer judgment during generation
Generate ideas with no criticism, then evaluate in a separate pass.
Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas - Defer all judgment during ideation
Separate the generating phase from the evaluating phase — they cannot run simultaneously without killing output.
Creative Confidence, Made Practical - Defer judgment during ideation
Separate generating ideas from evaluating them — criticism comes later, never during.
Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical - 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 - Ideate — generate options before judging
Produce many candidate solutions, deferring evaluation until you have quantity.
Design Thinking, Step by Step - Green hat: generate new ideas and creative possibilities
The green hat is for generating alternatives and possibilities without evaluation — quantity and novelty over quality and correctness.
Six Thinking Hats, Made Practical - Collect everything that resonates — without editing
Build a practice of gathering ideas, images, sounds, and fragments without evaluating whether they are "good enough."
The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making - Harvest and cluster ideas after the session
The generation phase is worthless without a systematic harvest: sort, name, and prioritize the output.
Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical - Generate Options — explore the full range of possibilities before committing
Invite the person to generate as many options as possible before evaluating any of them.
The GROW Model: Coaching Conversations That Actually Move People
Related concerns
- Defer Judgment Brainstorming
Separate generating ideas from evaluating them — criticism comes later, never during.
Defer judgment during ideation
- Separate Idea Generation From Evaluation
Generate ideas with no criticism, then evaluate in a separate pass.
Defer judgment during generation
- Brainstorming Without Judgment
Separate generating ideas from evaluating them — criticism comes later, never during.
- Defer Judgment Ideation
Separate generating ideas from evaluating them — criticism comes later, never during.
- Separate Generation From Evaluation
Separate the generating phase from the evaluating phase — they cannot run simultaneously without killing output.
Defer all judgment during ideation
- Separate Ideation From Evaluation
Separate the generating phase from the evaluating phase — they cannot run simultaneously without killing output.
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