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genius-life
A creativity practice for your own work and life: open conversations about creative blocks, habits, and conditions, or structured development of a concrete project or idea through a five-phase process.
Why Install This Skill
Generic "be more creative" advice either stays abstract or turns into a personality quiz. This skill gives your agent a way to actually work with you: it coaches one substantial question at a time in open sessions, and it runs a clear five-phase structure (Prepare, Immerse, Incubate, Capture, Verify) when you bring a concrete project or fledgling idea you want to move forward. It is grounded in practices observed across forty MacArthur Fellows and in modern creativity research, with the evidence stated honestly.
The skill is deliberately anti-myth. It will not promise breakthroughs, tell you whether you were "born creative," or assign you a creative personality type. Instead it helps you notice what comes naturally, rebuild the conditions around your best work, take risks with your eyes open, and learn from failure without judgment. You stay the author of your own work; the agent structures, asks, and guides — it never produces the work for you.
What You Get
| Path | Purpose |
|---|---|
SKILL.md |
How to run a session: two modes, the five-phase spine, and routing |
references/ |
Coaching contract, question banks, the practices catalog, evidence basis, and scope-and-safety boundaries |
templates/ |
Six fillable worksheets: talent audit, session plan, project worksheet, conditions audit, incubation log, risk and failure review |
evals/ |
Representative behavior cases used to check the skill keeps its coaching shape |
Quick Start
No setup, no scripts, no API keys. Start a conversation with a prompt like:
I feel blocked. Help me find my way back to regular writing.
The agent will agree with you on what the session is for, then ask one substantial question at a time. Or bring a concrete project:
I want to develop my idea for a podcast about neighborhood history into a
real plan.
That routes into the structured five-phase process, with a fillable project worksheet available if you want it. The skill proposes templates and exercises only with your permission, and you can always decline.
Triggers
Load this skill when someone wants to work on creativity in their own work or life: "I want to be more creative," creative blocks, creative habits, motivation, resilience, the environment and conditions around their work, or a concrete project, idea, or problem they want to move forward.
Do not load it for therapy or clinical support, general life coaching, requirements discovery or stakeholder interviews, or business ideation — and do not expect it to summarize the book it draws its orientation from.
Requirements
None. The skill ships as markdown and works with any agent that loads Agent Skills. No environment variables, no Python version, no system tools.