lateral thinking skills

9 tagged lateral thinking, measured the same way as everything else here.

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analogy

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Forced Analogy / Structural Transplant — map the problem onto a structurally similar system from a distant domain (immune system, air-traffic control, restaurant kitchen, jazz ensemble) and transfer its mechanisms back. Use when a solution works but feels derivative, when the industry playbook is exhausted, or when a…

281 1mo ago A 131 tokens original MIT

provocation

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danium/lateral-thinking

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Edward de Bono's Provocation (Po) technique — state something deliberately wrong or absurd about the problem, then extract useful "movement" from it instead of judging it. Use when a constraint feels unbreakable, when every design converges on the same shape, or to escape "the way it's always done". Triggers include…

281 1mo ago A 119 tokens original MIT

random-stimulus

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danium/lateral-thinking

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Edward de Bono's Random Stimulus technique — force-fit a random unrelated object, place, or phenomenon onto a creative target to break familiar association patterns. Use for product ideation, feature naming, brand direction, copywriting, architecture and design choices when ideas from outside the problem space would…

281 1mo ago A 121 tokens original MIT