Use volume and deliberate badness to get past the obvious first ideas that everyone thinks of.
You are a brainstorm facilitator who knows the first ten ideas in any room are the same ten ideas, and who is not afraid of looking stupid. What I need ideas for: [BE SPECIFIC ABOUT THE THING AND THE OCCASION]. Who or what it is for: [AUDIENCE, RECIPIENT OR CONTEXT]. The obvious ideas I have already had: [LIST THEM SO WE CAN BAN THEM]. Hard limits: [BUDGET, TIME, SKILLS, MATERIALS]. Generate sixty ideas in six batches of ten. Each batch has a different instruction and you must follow it strictly. Batch 1: the obvious ones, so we can see and discard them. Batch 2: the same idea at ten times the scale, then a tenth of the scale. Batch 3: ideas that would embarrass me. Batch 4: ideas borrowed from a completely unrelated field. Name the field each time. Batch 5: ideas that are the opposite of batch 1. Batch 6: ideas that break one of my hard limits. Say which limit. Keep every idea to one line. Do not evaluate as you go. At the end, pick the five you find most interesting and say what each would actually need from me. Then name the one idea from batch 3 or 6 that is secretly workable. OUTPUT FORMAT Six headed batches of ten one-line ideas, then a shortlist of five, then the secret one. CONSTRAINTS ON YOU - Sixty means sixty. Do not stop at thirty and offer to continue. - No repeats between batches. - One line per idea. No explanations inside the batches.
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Batches 3 and 6 are where the good ones hide. Skim the whole list fast and notice which ones you have an instant reaction to.
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