# Card 12: The Open Door

**Reach for it when** the work is correct, complete and lifeless, and you suspect the best idea is one you haven't thought of.

**Say it like this**

- "This is correct and dull. Give me the version you'd write if pleasing me weren't the goal, and tell me what you changed and why."
- "Give me the three options I asked for, then a fourth nobody would suggest in a meeting. Label it."

**Not this:** "Just be more creative."

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