My knree jerk reaction is to try something really new and weird, like, yell at the full moon. Or post something so incendiary it goes viral—like approving something everyone hates. Or to directly email Taylor Swift’s agency and ask them if she’s looking for a new music video director (I don’t know any of her songs, hence why it is radically novel). None of that is likely to work though, it’s just quota-filling, being new for the sake of being new.
In my experience, it is mostly quota filling for big, persistent problems. Most of the things I tried for my migraines and procrastination worked partially at best. But if you do enough of them, you will stumble on a solution. (Maybe multiple solutions you need to stack, but if it works, it works.) You couldn’t have guessed beforehand that it would work. If you could, your problem would have been solved long ago.
And if you keep trying one new thing a day, let alone for a particular problem, you will go through so many ideas that you’ll hit on a success even if the odds are 1 in a hundred.
Also, if you can’t come up with any ideas that look good to you, but you can’t just quit, then it is time to lower your filters and do something weird. Babble more and prune less.
EDIT: That said, a lot of my problems aren’t something I’ve seriously tried to solve before. Either because they’re new or because I’m lazy. These problems are often resolved on the first serious try.
In my experience, it is mostly quota filling for big, persistent problems. Most of the things I tried for my migraines and procrastination worked partially at best. But if you do enough of them, you will stumble on a solution. (Maybe multiple solutions you need to stack, but if it works, it works.) You couldn’t have guessed beforehand that it would work. If you could, your problem would have been solved long ago.
And if you keep trying one new thing a day, let alone for a particular problem, you will go through so many ideas that you’ll hit on a success even if the odds are 1 in a hundred.
Also, if you can’t come up with any ideas that look good to you, but you can’t just quit, then it is time to lower your filters and do something weird. Babble more and prune less.
EDIT: That said, a lot of my problems aren’t something I’ve seriously tried to solve before. Either because they’re new or because I’m lazy. These problems are often resolved on the first serious try.