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Oblique Strategies
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mastodon 4.7.2An "Oblique Strategies" bot 🤖. The "Oblique Strategies" are a card-based method for promoting creativity, jointly created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, and first published in 1975.
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You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas
#ObliqueStrategies
Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do
#ObliqueStrategies
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Define an area as 'safe' and use it as an anchor
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Make something implied more definite (reinforce, duplicate)
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Listen to the quiet voice
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them
Don't be frightened of cliches
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Be less critical more often
Towards the insignificant
#ObliqueStrategies
Ask your body
Where's the edge? Where does the frame start?
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Trust in the you of now
Abandon normal instruments
Do nothing for as long as possible
Do the words need changing?
#ObliqueStrategies
Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them
Once the search is in progress, something will be found
Abandon normal instruments
In total darkness in a very large room, very quietly
Gardening, not architecture
Towards the insignificant
#ObliqueStrategies
In total darkness in a very large room, very quietly
#ObliqueStrategies
Voice nagging suspicions
Think - inside the work -outside the work
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Accept advice
Be extravagant
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Turn it upside down
Do the words need changing?
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Disciplined self-indulgence
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What to maintain?
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Be dirty
Be dirty
#ObliqueStrategies
Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them
Work at a different speed
Breathe more deeply
Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics
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Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency
Go to an extreme, move back to a more comfortable place
Repetition is a form of change
You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas
Courage!
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Which frame would make this look right?
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What to increase? What to reduce?
Go outside. Shut the door
Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate
Repetition is a form of change
#ObliqueStrategies
Always first steps
Towards the insignificant