{"id":2624,"date":"2013-04-16T03:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2014-02-09T15:06:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T20:06:28","slug":"oblique-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/2013\/04\/16\/oblique-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Oblique strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #1c827a;\">Whack your brain<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago\u2014nine or ten\u2014I blogged about <em>A Whack on the Side of the Head<\/em>. the nudge into more creative thinking by Roger von Oech.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s tip is about another tool to feed your creativity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oblique_Strategies\" target=\"_blank\">Oblique Strategies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oblique strategies started life as a deck of cards.\u00a0 Not ordinary playing cards, but a little black box full of small cards printed with &#8220;Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Created in collaboration by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Eno\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Eno<\/a>, a musician, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Schmidt_%28artist%29\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Schmidt<\/a>, an artist, these cards present you with a question, a thought, a suggestion designed to help you look at a problem in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the cards will seem disconnected from your problem.\u00a0 Obscure.\u00a0 Confusing.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, those are the best cards.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them will present you with an obvious solution.\u00a0 (More like an obvious path, since they aren&#8217;t really solutions.)<\/p>\n<p>The cards themselves don&#8217;t seem to be available anymore, except, sometimes, on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>You could make your own.\u00a0 The full text of the various editions of the cards, as well as more history about them, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtqe.net\/ObliqueStrategies\/\" target=\"_blank\">this website.<\/a> There are downloadable zipped versions available at the same place for generating random cards on your own PC.<\/p>\n<p>Or you can generate a random oblique strategy online <a href=\"http:\/\/stoney.sb.org\/eno\/oblique.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These are not easy if you are used to linear thinking, but they will reward you, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whack your brain A few days ago\u2014nine or ten\u2014I blogged about A Whack on the Side of the Head. the nudge into more creative thinking by Roger von Oech.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s tip is about another tool to feed your creativity. Oblique Strategies Oblique strategies started life as a deck of cards.\u00a0 Not ordinary playing cards, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","tag-tuesday-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}