When you are stuck, use “Oblique strategies – defeat creative block”
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/10
Sometimes you are stuck. Then this often helps, even outside the music industry:
[WayBack] Oblique strategies – defeat creative block: Draw random Oblique Strategy cards to break through creative block.
These are disruptive which is the whole point being stuck.
Obey the first and only rule: pick the first card and apply what it says.
- Do NOT fall for the urge to draw multiple cards.
- Do NOT make a list of all cards then choose from it.
Both above failures kill the randomness of the above strategy.
More on them at [WayBack] Oblique Strategies – Wikipedia
Via:
- [Archive.is] Tim Harford: How frustration can make us more creative | TED Talk
- [WayBack] Trial, error and the God complex
–jeroen
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