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Get unstuck on a problem by deliberately re-framing it through a different lens — a child's, an outsider's, another industry's, the reverse, the extreme. Use when asked I'm stuck on this, look at this differently, reframe this problem, or how else could I think about this. Produces the same problem re-cast through several deliberately different frames (each of which changes what the problem even is), what each reframe reveals, and the most useful new angle to pursue — because being stuck is usually a framing problem, not an effort problem.

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# Think From Another Angle

When you're stuck, thinking harder from the same angle rarely helps — the angle itself is the trap. This re-casts your problem through deliberately different frames: how a curious ten-year-old would see it, how another industry solves the equivalent, what happens at the extremes, what if you did the opposite. Each reframe changes what the problem *is*, and one of them usually pops it open.

## What This Skill Produces

- **The problem, reframed several ways** — recast through distinct lenses (naïve, outsider, another domain, inverted, extreme, "what if this weren't a problem")
- **What each reframe reveals** — the new angle or possibility each one exposes
- **The most useful frame** — the reframe that best unsticks this specific problem
- **A next move** — the concrete action the best reframe points to

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