Week 8

REFERENCE MATERIAL:

Cooperative intelligence; genius. Process of singling out important people and forgetting about the others. “Senius” creative intelligence of a community. Everyone is equal and unique set of gifts and talents. Ideas are articulated by individuals and generated by communities.

To persuade you not to have a job – but this does not mean try not to do anything. Do the thing you want to do with your time and take advantage of your possibilities, and you will find a job that you enjoy.

Oblique Strategies:

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Here are a couple examples of what you could find written on the cards:

• Use an old idea
• What would your closest friend do?
• Honour thy error as a hidden intention
• Work at a different speed
• What to increase? What to reduce?
• Change instrument roles
• Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance
• Faced with a choice, do both

Because we’re all individuals, we bring our own unique histories, backgrounds, biases, and mindsets into the interpretation of what the cards may mean to us in relation to the problem we’re trying to deal with. And what’s more interesting is that you could end up interpreting the same card in completely different ways on different projects.

So pick a card and see what it could mean to you. It may just unlock some new options that you hadn’t considered before. And if it doesn’t, that’s ok. You may draw as many cards as you wish. After all, it doesn’t matter how or when you break your blockage, what matters is that you finally found something that triggered an “aha” moment that lets you move forward.

I love this concept and feel like this is something I could actually do with having in my path as a designer. I know these cards are generic; could I make a design version that is relevant to me and my skills for this week?

Expectations: What things should be like in your head; it’s perfection. That is so exciting. Vivid idea of how you want it to look.
Reality: You try to make that idea. It’s terrible. Profound mediocrity. Disappointing. Go back to bed.
To solve this: Nothing is that easy – forgive yourself for mistakes. Don’t hurry. Chip away daily. Create a timetable, work without help or negativity. Take your time and spend a long time. It pays off. Keep going.

This is great information. But what if you don’t have the time, you are busy, and you need to think smarter? I have found an interesting article which actually mentions multi-tasking and that even though I think I’m doing six things at once, it’s actually not really the case. Another article backs this up with the fact that multitasking just means I’m task-switching. It fools us into thinking that we are being productive, but we’re actually not.