![]() pay homage to Brian Enos beloved musical Oblique Strategies, the Dare cards are. They're also considerably more verbose in the sense that you're getting not only the instruction, but some background information that expands and grounds the original suggestion - it's quite a different approach to a similar problem, when compared to the Oblique Strategies. Part insider expos, part worker-manual, this book is for any creative. By Maria Popova Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences, ambient music pioneer Brian Eno wrote in his diary. They're focused - in a more general sense - on more generalized strategies for problem solving. Oblique Strategies: Brian Eno’s Prompts for Overcoming Creative Block, Inspired by John Cage If a thing can be said, it can be said simply. Roger von Oech's interest in creative problem solving started with a book, whose summarized contents morphed into the pack of cards (and an iOS app in the bargain, too). One well-known version of this approach is The Creative Whack Pack, which takes its name from the Zen blow upside the head that leads to Enlightenment. And the world is full of people who have thought long and hard (and well, occasionally) on a more generalized approach to problem solving – often, in situations where groups are involved. The Oblique Strategies constitute a set of over 100 cards, each of which is a suggestion of a course of action or thinking to assist in creative situations. ![]() The oracular approach is usually about solving a given problem, or trying to break a logjam.
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