exploration-domain-transfer

Find insights by applying patterns from completely different fields, useful for creative breakthroughs, solving novel problems, or when traditional approaches aren't working. Use when: (1) asked to apply insights from another field, find analogies across domains, or transfer patterns from one context to another, (2) conventional approaches keep failing and genuinely different thinking is needed, (3) before concluding a problem is novel, to verify whether other domains solved similar patterns, (4) a pattern from another field might provide a clearer mental model, (5) field-specific solutions repeatedly fail to address the underlying problem, (6) before building from scratch, to check whether proven solutions exist in adjacent fields, (7) traditional domain expertise constrains rather than enables progress