In the mid-1970s, he developed a system called Oblique Strategies to help people maintain a creative state.
Let me walk through the problem that Eno was trying to solve.
He believes that enthusiasm and alertness are key components of creativity. However, he noticed that artists tend to struggle with maintaining these qualities when working under... See more
Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
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For creative exploration, anecdotes are powerful, as they often represent outliers or anomalies in data which might be more indicative of new trends, attitudes, or areas of interest, than the averages derived from aggregated data.
-Rory Sutherland on the Rick Rubin podcast