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--- title: "19-02-03 How to make ideas or concepts generative" visibility: public --- # 19-02-03 How to make ideas or concepts generative Category: [[idea-lists-upon-request|Idea Lists (Upon Request)]] [Read the original document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18bsUrXWd_L-gioI7ouDN4Jpm2J2ARzlC20_dG47obDw/edit?usp=drivesdk&sa=D&ust=1596495076803000&usg=AOvVaw08SM4KBLRMKqZVra0DOAAK) <!-- gdoc-inlined --> --- 1. Create questions, rather than pure concepts. 1. Rather than decompose, ask ‘what are its sub-parts’, or ‘what are all of its instantiations’? 2. Rather than abstract and generalize, ask ‘what is the most general version of this?’ or ‘what is this a single example of?’ 2. Invert - ask the opposite of the question, if your target is a question 1. Ex., instead of ‘what do you believe that few others believe’, ask ‘what to you disbelieve that many others believe’ 2. There are a few versions of inversion 1. Opposite in meaning of the entire question 2. Switch the meaning of the verb, 1. From x to not x 2. From x to -x 3. If it’s descriptive, ask ‘what would I do if I was x’ 1. Ex., what would I do if I was decisive? 2. Ex., what would I do if I was perfectly rational and had complete control? 3. Ex., what would I do if I was a genius / hero / superhero / supervillain? 4. How do I create x? (As a default response to any noun) 1. How do I create the optimal x? 1. How do I create the optimal friendship? 2. The optimal experience? 2. How do I create the transcendent x? 5. Take an example of a process that was generative due to or by the concept in question. Walk step by step through that process, and in elucidating the steps create a set of leading questions that make it more generally generative. 1. Ex., noticing a technique that works (say, deadlines), asking why it works, and using that why to generate new techniques as a sequence of leading quesitons that make generalization generative in a specific way that is extremely tractable. 1. Note, to create specific versions of generalization or abstraction (really, every technique) that sacrifice generality for ease of generation --- *Source: [Original Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18bsUrXWd_L-gioI7ouDN4Jpm2J2ARzlC20_dG47obDw/edit?usp=drivesdk&sa=D&ust=1596495076803000&usg=AOvVaw08SM4KBLRMKqZVra0DOAAK)*