Description Oblique Strategies: 3rd Edition - Over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas © 1979 Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt The Oblique Strategies are a deck of cards intended to assist artists in breaking through creative blocks and stressful situations by encouraging divergent thinking and changes in attitude. Collaboratively created by two friends, musician Brian Eno and painter Peter Schmidt, each card features a phrase in order to help through artistic dilemmas (e.g. 'Honor thy error as a hidden intention', 'Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them', 'Emphasise the flaws').
The 3rd Edition(1979) of the set was deliberately used as it was the last edition collaborated on by Peter Schmidt due to his passing in 1980.
Although studying is considered a legitimate scientific nowadays, it is still a very young one. In the early 1970s, a psychologist named J.
Guilford was one of the first academic researchers who dared to conduct a study of creativity. One of Guilford’s most famous studies was the nine-dot puzzle. He challenged research subjects to connect all nine dots using just four straight lines without lifting their pencils from the page. Today many people are familiar with this puzzle and its solution. In the 1970s, however, very few were even aware of its existence, even though it had been around for almost a century. If you have tried solving this puzzle, you can confirm that your first attempts usually involve sketching lines inside the imaginary square.
The correct solution, however, requires you to draw lines that extend beyond the area defined by the dots. At the first stages, all the participants in Guilford’s original study censored their own thinking by limiting the possible solutions to those within the imaginary square (even those who eventually solved the puzzle). Even though they weren’t instructed to restrain themselves from considering such a solution, they were unable to “see” the white space beyond the square’s boundaries. Nadodikattu Movie Songs Download. Only 20 percent managed to break out of the illusory confinement and continue their lines in the white space surrounding the dots. The symmetry, the beautiful simplicity of the solution, and the fact that 80 percent of the participants were effectively blinded by the boundaries of the square led Guilford and the readers of his books to leap to the sweeping conclusion that creativity requires you to go outside the box. The idea went viral (via 1970s-era media and word of mouth, of course). Overnight, it seemed that creativity gurus everywhere were teaching managers how to think outside the box.