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Summary: Break your habitual thought patterns to create new ideas !
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The Creative Wack Pack consists of 64 cards each focusing on a different creativity principle. The 64 cards are divided into four sixteen card suits: Explorer, Artist, Judge, and Warrior. These represent the four roles or types of thinking of the creative process.
The Explorer is your role for discovering the resources you'll use to create new ideas. The cards in the Explorer suit highlight places and ways to find new information.
The Artist is your role for transforming your resources into new ideas. The cards in the Artist suit provide you with idea-generating techniques.
The Judge is your role for evaluating an idea and deciding what to do with it. The cards in the Judge suit lend decision making advice.
The Warrior is your role for implementing your idea. The cards in the Warrior suit give you the "kick" you need to get your ideas into action.
There are several ways the cards can be used. One of the best is the "Creative Licencing at Meetings". At the beginning of a meeting, deal out five cards to each participant. The cards give each person permission to make a point related to that card as you work though the meeting agenda. A participant may play a card at any time if he or she feels thtat its message will help the meeting.
Some examples of cards:
Card #27 - CHANGE ITS NAME - If a architect looks at an opening between two rooms and thinks "door" that's what she will design. But if she thinks "passageway", she may design something much different like a "hallway", "air curtain", "tunnel", or perhaps a "courtyard". Different words bring in different assumptions and lead your thinking in different directions. What else can you call your idea?
Card #9 - USE A RANDOM IDEA - Open your mind up to things that have nothing to do with the idea you're developing. Pick out the third word on p.134 of your dictionary - "broom". How does it relate to what you are doing? What similiarities does it have with your idea? Can you use it as a metaphor? Look out your window and find the first thing that has blue in it - "mailbox". How does it shed light on your idea? What random idea can you use to stimulate your thinking?
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Summary: Break your habitual thought patterns to create new ideas !
Review:
The Creative Wack Pack consists of 64 cards each focusing on a different creativity principle. The 64 cards are divided into four sixteen card suits: Explorer, Artist, Judge, and Warrior. These represent the four roles or types of thinking of the creative process.
The Explorer is your role for discovering the resources you'll use to create new ideas. The cards in the Explorer suit highlight places and ways to find new information.
The Artist is your role for transforming your resources into new ideas. The cards in the Artist suit provide you with idea-generating techniques.
The Judge is your role for evaluating an idea and deciding what to do with it. The cards in the Judge suit lend decision making advice.
The Warrior is your role for implementing your idea. The cards in the Warrior suit give you the "kick" you need to get your ideas into action.
There are several ways the cards can be used. One of the best is the "Creative Licencing at Meetings". At the beginning of a meeting, deal out five cards to each participant. The cards give each person permission to make a point related to that card as you work though the meeting agenda. A participant may play a card at any time if he or she feels thtat its message will help the meeting.
Some examples of cards:
Card #27 - CHANGE ITS NAME - If a architect looks at an opening between two rooms and thinks "door" that's what she will design. But if she thinks "passageway", she may design something much different like a "hallway", "air curtain", "tunnel", or perhaps a "courtyard". Different words bring in different assumptions and lead your thinking in different directions. What else can you call your idea?
Card #9 - USE A RANDOM IDEA - Open your mind up to things that have nothing to do with the idea you're developing. Pick out the third word on p.134 of your dictionary - "broom". How does it relate to what you are doing? What similiarities does it have with your idea? Can you use it as a metaphor? Look out your window and find the first thing that has blue in it - "mailbox". How does it shed light on your idea? What random idea can you use to stimulate your thinking?
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Summary: An excellent tool
Review: As a member of a corporate creative team, we need all the tools we can find to boost creative thinking. This one won't disappoint you!
Rating:
Summary: An excellent tool
Review: As a member of a corporate creative team, we need all the tools we can find to boost creative thinking. This one won't disappoint you!
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Summary: A POWERHOUSE TO SLAM THROUGH ANY BLOCK
Review: I am no reviewer, I can assure you. I can't offer "words of wisdom" that any "normal" person can't figure out for themselves. May I, at the very least, offer you my humble opinion of this work? I will start by saying that NOTHING can make you smarter, wiser, more astute, or more creative... There is not a teacher nor an author that will transform you into a "million seller". However, there MAY be a work that can HELP you to unlock the "closed doors" of your mind. I bought this to help me overcome "writer's block." I learned that I block my own life in various ways that have NOTHING to do with my craft. This work means absolutely NOTHING if you already know everything. If, perhaps, you need a "kick in the pants"--a "nudge" towards the obviously "too obvious"...Then THIS is for you...At the very LEAST--it was for ME. Thanks.
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Summary: A POWERHOUSE TO SLAM THROUGH ANY BLOCK
Review: I am no reviewer, I can assure you. I can't offer "words of wisdom" that any "normal" person can't figure out for themselves. May I, at the very least, offer you my humble opinion of this work? I will start by saying that NOTHING can make you smarter, wiser, more astute, or more creative... There is not a teacher nor an author that will transform you into a "million seller". However, there MAY be a work that can HELP you to unlock the "closed doors" of your mind. I bought this to help me overcome "writer's block." I learned that I block my own life in various ways that have NOTHING to do with my craft. This work means absolutely NOTHING if you already know everything. If, perhaps, you need a "kick in the pants"--a "nudge" towards the obviously "too obvious"...Then THIS is for you...At the very LEAST--it was for ME. Thanks.
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Summary: A POWERHOUSE TO SLAM THROUGH ANY BLOCK
Review: I am no reviewer, I can assure you. I can't offer "words of wisdom" that any "normal" person can't figure out for themselves. May I, at the very least, offer you my humble opinion of this work? I will start by saying that NOTHING can make you smarter, wiser, more astute, or more creative... There is not a teacher nor an author that will transform you into a "million seller". However, there MAY be a work that can HELP you to unlock the "closed doors" of your mind. I bought this to help me overcome "writer's block." I learned that I block my own life in various ways that have NOTHING to do with my craft. This work means absolutely NOTHING if you already know everything. If, perhaps, you need a "kick in the pants"--a "nudge" towards the obviously "too obvious"...Then THIS is for you...At the very LEAST--it was for ME. Thanks.
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Summary: Can't live without them!!!!
Review: I have had these cards for about 8 years now and they have never failed to help me or my team out of a bind. Anytime you are at a loss for an idea, need a solution for a problem or just plain brainstorming, pull these out. At first your colleagues will look at you as though you have 3 heads (cards???), but they will soon come to realize that your end results would not have been nearly as productive or successful without them.
Nearly everyone in my office has a deck now!!!
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Summary: Leave it to the pros
Review: I was refered to the "Whack Pack" by a very successful computer game designer. If the pros find the "Whack Pack" useful, it must be quite worth getting for any project you come across.
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Summary: Incredibly Wild
Review: I'm hesitant to say that it's going to change your life; you would certainly be better off meeting a wonderful teacher who can show you wonderful things about the world (and if you haven't emt one yet then you need to get cracking), but Roger Von Oech's Whack Packs are so very fun to play around with ;) Predictably, all of the cards are just critical enough to be applicable to everything in the universe, just like depressing movies will never fail to get you thinking about the things you might want to change in yourself... But it's incredibly enjoyable to share with friends and have some fun with. I'm particularly partial to the art style (it reminds me of Terry Gilliam) and the vignettes are fantabulous.
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