Yitang / Complete Flash of Inspiration System (Cognition + Cases + Tools + Notes)

The "Flash of Inspiration" series taught by Truman.3 years of personal deliberate practice + 1,058 co-created assignments totaling 1.39 million Chinese characters.

The teaching and research team predicts: the future status of this topic may be no less than that of "Checklist-Style Notes", and may even be on the same level as "Life Red Dots".

1. What is a flash of inspiration

Core definition

The production of creative solutions to open-ended problems — not ready-made options; new, creative, even completely innovative solutions need to be found.

Typical scenarios:

Naming things
Finding ways to remove friction
Writing marketing copy
Designing holiday gifts
Avoiding major risks in new projects
Proposing hypotheses (predictions / decisions)

2×2 creative work classification

	Large volume	Small volume
Rely on yourself	Top left ★ Flash of inspiration(blank field)	Ordinary thinking
Rely on others	Brainstorming / workshops	Asking others for advice

There has long been a gap in the market for courses on this:Top left = relying neither on others nor on existing references, extracting a large number of creative solutions using your own 30+ years of accumulated brain experience.

Key practice targets

Within 10 minutes, design 5 alternative storylines for a training camp
Within 20 minutes, write 30 lines of marathon marketing copy
Within 30 minutes, write 20 new hypotheses for "My Treat"
Within 1 hour, write 50 pieces of sales copy for a certain SKU

2. Truman's 4 stages of flash of inspiration (Exploration Camp 1 Case Module)

Stage 1: Early career — Valuing addition

3 upgrades:

Dedicated addition: stopping to do dedicated addition is the key step
Collecting information: gaining inspiration from multiple angles and obtaining reference information
Slowing down decisions: be slow in open decision-making; do not make decisions when there are not enough options

Cases:

Yitang's early opportunity selection and predictions
The determination of Yitang's early brand name

Core cognition:For open problems, give yourself the right to choose.

Stage 2: Confidence stage — Valuing hypotheses

The upgrade from "proposing hypotheses" to "valuing hypotheses".

Core: for every open problem, use "hypotheses" as the work unit, quantity first > quality first.

Stage 3: Critical flashing (deep training)

Using 30 years of your own brain experience to gain deep insights, generating a large number of creative solutions.Do not rely on others, do not rely on peers.

Stage 4: Systematic output — Team-level flash of inspiration

Leading the team to practice together, but there are very few people in the team who can hold equal conversations, so business advancement still heavily relies on Truman's own flashes of inspiration.

3. Flash of Inspiration Exploration Camp 2 (Tool Module)

Provides a specific toolset and method library, enabling individuals to independently train their flash of inspiration ability.

Main tool directions

Deep work environment — see Candy's "Truman Deep Work Equipment List"
Music assistance — see Candy's "Leg-Bouncing Recommended Playlist"
Introduction to flow — see Candy's "Shuishui's Book Breakdown of *Flow*"
AI-empowered flash of inspiration — see Candy's "AI Flash of Inspiration Prompts"
Scenario-based training — see real training cases in Truman's personal notes

4. Truman's Flash of Inspiration Notes (practical demonstrations)

Note 1: Offline 2-day-1-night ROI training camp

While serving as an on-site coach,force yourself to flash 10 optimization hypotheses:

Provide canvases, ROI flipped classroom (before-after)
Fixed deliverables, deliver fixed BA delivery comparisons
Concept introduction, clearly explain the training purpose
Training guidance: associate Tips (reverse derivation)
Special introduction: clearly and explicitly introduce the senior figures co-learning in the room
Add commentary, add commentary and elevation to each section
City list: how many cities this course has covered (sense of ceremony)
Long-term cases: turn into long-term services and privileges (surprise)
Arsenal list: x tools, x cases, x copy-the-homework cases
City characteristics: talk more about city culture and city features

Note 2: Offline introductory MBA camp

While listening to graduation presentations (4 hours),force yourself to flash 30 pieces of essential cognition.

10 reusable new delivery cognitions for the three-day-two-night camp(in reverse order):

Training materials (must-know materials + knowledge checklists + case deduction materials + compilation bags)
On-site case deduction (multi-round task deduction + real case deduction)
Flipped classroom (taking responsibility + cross-sharing, 90min)
Step off the stage to teach casually (stand among the crowd, interact and ask questions)
On-site exam (in-class quiz, testing with your eyes)
Refined grouping (refined grouping + coach selection + refined modeling)
Role responsibility (xx responsibility, more roles to be configured in the future)
Provide DEMOs (provide roadshow DEMOs for testing and learning)
Tasks first (assign xxx tasks first, then give lectures)
High-frequency tasks (3 rounds on day 1 / 9 rounds on day 2 / 3 rounds of small tasks on day 3)

10 reusable new course creation cognitions:

Partnered course creation (make PPTs together, cross co-creation)
Experience design (core + predicted problems and bugs → rule-based responses)
Hold kickoff meetings (kickoff meetings for key module leaders are very important)
Coach selection (active grouping, select coaches with strong directions for 2B/2C)
Bottom-line management (management of students at the service bottom line)
Coach commentary modeling (essence / pursuit / question checklist of commentary)
Single grouping (only group once + signatures + coach warm-up)
Signature photo wall (photo wall for each person / signatures / good-looking / sense of participation)
Coach interviews (supplementary professional knowledge points and golden quotes)
Coach demonstration (coaches do Demos as examples)

10 new iteration hypotheses for the next session:

Gift center: free 1–5 yuan gifts (make friends + encourage referrals)
Refined photo operations (scenarios / value / models)
One hundred thousand dollars: the key one-hundred-thousand-dollar image, a large image showing it in practice
...

5. Candy's collection of 6 documents

Candy 1: Shuishui's book breakdown of Flow, NPS 81%

Student "Shuishui" broke down Csikszentmihalyi's classic *Flow*, with an NPS score of 81%.

Core of flow:

Match between challenge level and skill (at the edge of ability)
Clear goals and immediate feedback
Merging of action and awareness
High concentration + sense of control

Candy 2: List of common equipment in Truman's deep work zone

List of hardware / software used by Truman himself (see the original document for specific devices).

Candy 3: Truman's commonly used leg-bouncing recommended playlist for flashes of inspiration

Collection of BGM for flashes of inspiration (echoes the BGM tool for "time management").

Candy 4: How Truman's on-site flashes improve the learning scale of existing courses

Systematically applying "on-site flashes of inspiration" to course iteration.

Candy 5: Mandatory for all staff - Flash of Inspiration Tool Module (overview)

Complete tool module course content.

Candy 6: One-page AI flash of inspiration prompts

Prompt templates for using AI to assist flashes of inspiration(see the original document for detailed templates).

6. Why this ability is critical

It is an advanced foundational skill for business leaders, creators, and entrepreneurs. Truman personally commented that "the status of this topic may be no less than that of 'Checklist-Style Notes' and 'Life Red Dots'".

Relationship with other abilities

Flash of inspiration = the "adder" of creative solutions
Review = the "subtracter" for experience
Scientific decision-making (ROI) = the "evaluator" of decisions
Combination of the three = the complete cycle of entrepreneurship / business management