I sometimes feel like I don’t know how to deliberately come up with ideas at all, but I’m not sure if I’m actually like that (it’s probably just insecurity or something, lol).
Do people like that actually exist, though? If so, why are they like that? And how do they learn to deliberately think of ideas?
Here’s one technique that helps me - internal brainstorming. Don’t try to be serious about coming up with an idea - think about many random vaguely related possibilities, combine them, reevaluate, etc.
Have your mind be in a state of flux jumping from one thought to another but not succumb to the pressure of having the final solution as quickly as possible.
After a while several coherent options will crystallize. Then comes the decision paralysis - unfortunately I have no cure for that.
I wasn’t asking for advice, but that’s still good advice! Thanks.