cross-disciplinary-creativitylisted

# Cross-Disciplinary Creativity ## Overview Importing an actual mechanism from a foreign domain and applying it structurally to a home-domain problem — producing a configuration no expert in either field could conceive alone. Not metaphor-making; the mechanism must be imported structurally, not just referenced. **Sequencing:** Use AFTER [first-principles] (decomposes home domain first). Use WITH [point-line-plane-solid] (plane→solid transition). Use BEFORE [non-consensus-thinking] (to hold the non-consensus position under expert pressure). ## When to Use Use when: industry is producing structurally similar solutions; a problem has resisted all home-domain attempts; you need radical differentiation from incumbents; a foreign technology has appeared that no one in your field has noticed. **When NOT to use:** home domain has well-tested solutions needing better execution; synthesis produces only metaphors; foreign mechanism is poorly understood; hours-level time pressure (synthesis requires incubation). ## Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door) - **Engine mode:** user has a concrete case → run The Process directly. - **Coach mode:** user unfamiliar or no concrete case → guide step by step. In Coach mode, respond one step at a time. Each [WAIT] is a hard stop — output only that step's question, then stop. 1. "The most valuable innovations are invented by people who apply a solution from one domain to a problem in another. This skill makes that transfer deliberate." 2. "