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random-stimulus
Edward de Bono's Random Stimulus technique — force-fit a random unrelated object, place, or phenomenon onto a creative target to break familiar association patterns. Use for product ideation, feature naming, brand direction, copywriting, architecture and design choices when ideas from outside the problem space would help. Triggers include "random stimulus", "random word", "force-fit", "de Bono", "inject a random object", "stare out the window", "see the tree and squeeze an idea". Do NOT use for analytical work like debugging, code review, or implementation tasks.
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 326 stars are split between them (about 33 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 58/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
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Alternatives
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onerandom-stimulus danium/lateral-thinking · Skill | 58 | ★ 326 | ≈146 always | 2mo ago |
| stimulus smnandre/symfony-ux-skills · Skill Both about stimulus and target | 52 | ★ 180 | ≈152 always | 5mo ago |