Practice question · Put in order
Arrange the stages of a generate-then-select working method in order.
- Leave the material alone for long enough to stop feeling attached to it
- Compare all the options against each other at the same level of finish
- Generate widely, without judging anything
- Develop only what survived the comparison
- Fix the question the work is trying to answer
Hints
- Judging during generation is the failure the method exists to prevent.
- The comparison has to be between things at the same stage.
Show the answer
- Fix the question the work is trying to answer
- Generate widely, without judging anything
- Leave the material alone for long enough to stop feeling attached to it
- Compare all the options against each other at the same level of finish
- Develop only what survived the comparison
Why
The middle step is the one students omit and the one that does the work. Attachment is formed by effort, so comparing on the same day as making is comparing against how much each one cost you. A day away is usually enough to make the comparison about the work instead.
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