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Best prompts for LIM for ideation using cognitive bias awareness
12 copy-ready prompts tailored for Latent/Lateral Ideation Methods (LIM) that explicitly surface and mitigate common cognitive biases during ideation. Each prompt is practical, stepwise, and includes a realistic example to paste and run with a modern large model.
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You know that sinking feeling when you realize your "brilliant" AI-generated ideas are all variations of the same tired concept? Or when your team gets stuck circling around the loudest voice in the room, missing game-changing possibilities that were hiding in plain sight? Your brain's built-in shortcuts are sabotaging your creativity, and traditional brainstorming with AI just amplifies these blind spots.
These 12 battle-tested prompts transform your ideation process by actively hunting down and neutralizing the cognitive biases that kill innovation. From anchoring effects that trap you in narrow thinking to availability bias that makes you overvalue flashy but flawed ideas, each prompt comes with step-by-step instructions and ready-to-use examples. Instead of generating more of the same predictable output, you'll unlock genuinely diverse perspectives, stress-test your assumptions, and walk away with ideas that actually hold up under scrutiny.
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Bias-Checked Idea List
You are an ideation engine. For the problem below, generate 12 concise, distinct ideas. For each idea: (1) label the primary cognitive bias that could make the idea seem better than it is (e.g., confirmation, anchoring, availability, optimism, status quo); (2) give one sentence of counter-evidence or a test that would falsify the idea; (3) suggest one low-cost experiment to validate or invalidate it. Problem: [PASTE PROBLEM STATEMENT].
Produces a fast set of ideas while explicitly naming likely biases and giving actionable tests to avoid being misled by them.
2
Devil’s-Advocate Reframe
Act as both an ideation lead and a devil’s-advocate. For the challenge below, produce 8 promising ideas (two sentences max each). Then for each idea, write a 2–3 sentence devil’s-advocate critique that exposes hidden assumptions and cognitive biases, and finish with one concrete modification that reduces that bias. Challenge: [PASTE CHALLENGE].
Balances creative suggestions with structured criticism to reduce groupthink and overconfidence before committing resources.
3
Premortem-Driven Idea Refinement
Perform a 5-year premortem for the proposed solution set. Step 1: generate 10 candidate product/strategy ideas for [PROBLEM]. Step 2: for each idea, write a short premortem scenario: 'What went wrong?' (2–3 sentences) naming specific bias-driven failure modes. Step 3: propose three design changes or contingency plans to avoid those failure modes.
Uses premortem thinking to surface optimism and planning fallacies, then ties each idea to concrete mitigations.
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Outside-View Benchmarking
For the target idea area [DESCRIBE IDEA OR MARKET], produce 8 idea variants and for each: (a) find at least one real-world analogue or industry base rate (short description + URL or known example); (b) explain how the base rate should adjust expectations (outside-view) and which bias it corrects; (c) recommend one metric to track. Target: [PASTE TARGET].
Anchors ideation to real-world base rates (the outside view) to correct planning fallacy and optimism bias.
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Anchoring-Removal Exploration
Ignore any prior numbers or stated targets. For [GOAL], generate 10 ideas that deliberately avoid numeric anchors from previous plans. For each idea, provide a rationale that does not rely on past metrics and a simple experiment that determines a fair price/target from fresh user feedback.
Helps teams escape anchor effects from earlier estimates or leadership targets by forcing fresh thinking and measurement-first validation.
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Stakeholder Persona Mixer
List 6 stakeholder personas relevant to [PROJECT]. For each persona: generate 5 prioritized feature or strategy ideas from their viewpoint, identify one cognitive bias likely present in that persona’s preferences, and recommend one interview question that elicits unbiased feedback from them. Project: [PASTE PROJECT].
Diversity of viewpoints reduces availability and confirmation biases by forcing multiple mental models during ideation.
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Counterfactual & Reverse-Assumption Ideation
Take the main assumption for [PROJECT] (state it). Now produce 10 ideas that assume the opposite of that assumption. For each idea, write one sentence on which bias the counterfactual addresses (e.g., status quo, confirmation), and one sentence on how to combine the counterfactual with the original assumption to form a hybrid test.
Forces exploration of options excluded by status-quo thinking and common assumptions to discover non-obvious directions.
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