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Creative Whack Pack

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As in Football (Soccer) where you can show a player the yellow or red card, the idea is that we can use the same concept ...but with a new twist.

Below are scanned copies of the 64 cards included in the Creative Whack Pack created by Roger von Oech. Here you can either use the cards for introspective purposes, or maybe show other players a card. A phase two of this concept might include a way to keep score, but then a conventional wisdom factor would have to be built into the equation.

Along this same vein, Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt put together a card set called Oblique Strategies, which uses the concept of random selection as a source of inspiration.

Give Yourself a Whack on the Side of the Head
Give Yourself a Whack
on the Side of the Head

ask why
Ask "Why"?
get out of your box
Get out of Your Box
look somewhere else
Look Somewhere Else
Dig Deeper
Dig Deeper
Change Viewpoints
Change Viewpoints
See the Big Picture
See the Big Picture
Try a Random Idea
Try a Random Idea
Drop an Assumption
Drop an Assumption
Find a Pattern
Find a Pattern
See, Hear, Taste, Feel, Smell
See, Hear, Taste, Feel, Smell
Listen to Your Dreams
Listen to Your Dreams
Look to Nature
Look to Nature
Look to the Past
Look to the Past
Let Your Mind Wander
Let Your Mind Wander
See the Obvious
See the Obvious
Think Like a Kid
Think Like a Kid
Ask What If
Ask "What If"
Challenge the Rules
Be Whacky
Be Whacky
Simplify
Simplify
Exaggerate
Exaggerate
Rearrange
Rearrange
Substiture
Substitute
Combine Ideas
Combine Ideas
Make a Metaphor
Make a Metaphor
Reverse
Reverse
Imagine How Others Would Do It
Imagine How Others
Would Do It

Imagine You're the Idea
Imagine You're the Idea
Change Its Name
Change Its Name
Don't Force It
Don't Force It
Pause For a Bit
Pause for a Bit
See the Positive
See the Positive
Find Out What's out of Whack
Find What's
out of Whack

Solve the Right Problem
Solve the Right Problem
Conform
Conform
Ask a Fool
Ask a Fool
Focus on the Real Truth
Focus on the Real Truth
Slay a Sacred Cow
Slay a Sacred Cow
Loosen Up
Loosen Up
Check Your Timing
Check Your Timing
Beware the Unintended
Beware the Unintended
Get Out of the Dogma House
Get Out of the
Dogma House

Be Dissatisfied
Be Dissatisfied
Don't Fall in Love with Ideas
Don't Fall in Love
with Ideas

Avoid Arrogance
Avoid Arrogance
Listen to That Hunch
Listen to That Hunch
Hear the Knock of Opportunity
Hear the Knock of
Opportunity

Take a Whack at It
Take A Whack at It
Believe In  Yourself
Believe in Yourself
Put a Lion in Your Heart
Put a Lion in
Your Heart

Fight For It
Fight For It
Flex Your Risk Muscle
Flex Your Risk Muscle
Get Support
Get Support
Get Rid of Excuses
Get Rid of Excuses
Slay a Dragon
Slay a Dragon
Have Something at Stake
Have Something
At Stake

Use Your Shield
Use Your Shield
Do the Unexpected
Do the Unexpected
Sell, Sell, Sell
Sell, Sell, Sell
Set a Deadline
Set a Deadline
Be Persistent
Be Persistent
Learn From Mistakes
Learn from Mistakes
Give Yourself a Pat on the Back
Give Yourself a
Pat on the Back


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update 27.12.2007