Oblique Strategies (subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) is a card-based method for promoting creativity jointly created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, first published in 1975. Physically, it takes the form of a deck of 7-by-9-centimetre (2.8 in × 3.5 in) printed cards in a black box.[1][2][3] Each card offers a challenging constraint intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking.
[[We start by promtping GPT-3 with the real Brian Eno lines]]
(Organic) machinery
A line has two sides
A very small object Its center
Abandon desire
Abandon normal instructions
Abandon normal instruments
Accept advice
Accretion
Adding on
Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture)
Always first steps
Always give yourself credit for having more than personality (given by Arto Lindsay)
Always the first steps
Are there sections? Consider transitions
Ask people to work against their better judgement
Ask your body
Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group
Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle
Be dirty
Be extravagant
Be less critical
Breathe more deeply
Bridges -build -burn
Bridges -build -burn
Cascades
Change ambiguities to specifics
Change instrument roles
Change nothing and continue consistently
Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency
Change specifics to ambiguities
Children -speaking -singing
Cluster analysis
Consider different fading systems
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Consider industry
Consider primitives
Consider rapid hardening
Consider the details
Consider the development
Consider the different qualities of the material
Consider the different weights
Consider the most elementary qualities
Consider the opposite
Consider the proportions of an element
Consider the qualities of an element
Consider the qualities of a tool
Consider the scale
Consider the texture
Consider things you might not usually consider
Contain and release
Copy the imperfection
Count components
Create an incantation
Crossbreed
Defend from challenge (by defending from challenge)
Define your objectives -opportunities (and set your objectives and opportunities)
Detach
Different groups approach the problem differently
Different people
Dig
Dig in
Dissolve
Double back (undo)
Dreaming -reality
Dynamic inconsistency
Embellish
Encourage a critical attitude
Enrich
Enough, already!
Entrust your sense of timing
Enter supporting materials
Escape routes
Exaggeration
Exaggerate the virtues of things you don't like (and vice versa)
Express more clearly the tensions in what you like
Fabricate more parts and join them together
Fade out
Fan the cards
Fascism and communism
Feather the noise
Find your home base (by working on something that's already good)
Find your home ground
Fix things as they break
Flow
Follow a contour
Follow the arc
Follow the same curve
Follow the structure
Follow the timing
Follow through (music)
Follow your thoughts through to their logical conclusion
Fragments
Freely generate
Freeze
Freeze the form of change
Freeze the physical
Freeze the procedure
Frequency
Gain exposure
Generate and relate
Generate and separate
Generate and unite
Generate freely
Generate multiple versions
Generate sequential activity
Generate together (also by looking at sequences)