Postpone Judgment

Key principle and Critical Successfactor in a Brain Storm session.

Defer all evaluation of ideas during idea generation. Separate the evaluation from the generation. Most groups don't follow this principle and are less productive. The principle increases the odds that we end up with at least one good idea and don't spend all time in criticizing every idea as we think of it. Besides it helps the group spirit.

---Martine Devos

Is this a "principle" or a Proto Pattern?

--David Hooker

I've seen thousands of uses. So Proto Pattern is out I think.

I could argue

Here 's why this works or even Here's why you want to be doing this.

Here's what to do is too strong but I think Alex Osborn called Postpone Judgment his most important rule for a good Brain Storm.

It might be fun to write these "things" in Pattern Form but there are good books about these good practices (or common sense ? of good habits ?).

See discussion under When To Use Pattern Form.

--- Martine Devos

Sir Karl Popper, following the Dialectic of Socrates and attacking what he called Verificationism, asserted that in science, hypotheses begin from unfounded conjecture, to be subjected to Critical Preference and then Reality Testing thereafter, never a'priori.

-- Aaron Agassi Fool Quest.com

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