Oblique strategies is a deck of cards that you can look at when you’re in the middle of a problem and do not know how else to go about solving it. I found a neat website that had online oblique strategy cards that you can click through the cards. My favorite one was “repetition is a form of change.” I found this one particularly interesting because it can mean so many different things. For example, if the same sentence is used throughout a story, the sentence is obviously the same each time it is written, but the meaning also changes with each setting in which the sentence is used. And as Dr. C said on the subject tonight, “repetition is a change in changeability.” Another one I found on the site was “emphasize repetitions,” which is pretty much along the same lines as the other one, but it is still interesting to think about, because why would you do that? How does that help you solve the problem? These are some questions that the statements on the cards make you think about, which is great when you are stuck on a problem and trying to look at it in new ways and from all directions.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~rf6t-tyfk/oblique.html
^ Thanks for the new link David! 🙂