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Brainstorm: Dreamer → Realist → Critic
This staged brainstorm separates imagination, feasibility, and criticism. The separation matters: early judgment narrows the field before unusual options have a chance to appear.
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A library of methodological modules
Each module is an understandable way of thinking that can also be operationalized as a method card inside Selecton.
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Weighted criteria
Weighted criteria make a difficult choice inspectable. Instead of relying on one overall impression, you state what matters, assign relative importance, and compare the same options on the same scale.
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TRIZ contradiction resolution
TRIZ treats a contradiction as useful design information. Instead of accepting a compromise, you describe what must improve and what becomes worse, then look for a change that separates or removes the conflict.
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GROW clarification
GROW is a coaching structure for moving from an unclear wish to a self-owned next step: Goal, Reality, Options, and Way forward. Selecton uses its clarifying logic rather than treating it as a rigid questionnaire.
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Pre-mortem
A pre-mortem uses prospective hindsight: imagine the plan has already failed, then explain why. This makes socially awkward or easily ignored risks easier to name before commitment.
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Six Thinking Hats
Six Thinking Hats separates perspectives that are often mixed into one argument. A group or individual looks at facts, feelings, risks, benefits, alternatives, and process in turn.
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First-principles thinking
First-principles thinking decomposes a problem into facts, assumptions, and requirements, then rebuilds possible solutions from what remains true. Its purpose is not novelty for its own sake but freedom from inherited constraints.
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