edition: 4
year: 1996
strategies:
  - "Abandon desire"
  - "Abandon normal instructions"
  - "Accept advice"
  - "Adding on"
  - "A line has two sides"
  - "Always the first steps"
  - "Ask people to work against their better judgement"
  - "Ask your body"
  - "Be dirty"
  - "Be extravagant"
  - "Be less critical"
  - "Breathe more deeply"
  - "Bridges -build -burn"
  - "Change ambiguities to specifics"
  - "Change nothing and continue consistently"
  - "Change specifics to ambiguities"
  - "Consider transitions"
  - "Courage!"
  - "Cut a vital connection"
  - "Decorate, decorate"
  - "Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important thing"
  - "Discard an axiom"
  - "Disciplined self-indulgence"
  - "Discover your formulas and abandon them"
  - "Display your talent"
  - "Distort time"
  - "Do nothing for as long as possible"
  - "Don't avoid what is easy"
  - "Don't break the silence"
  - "Don't stress one thing more than another"
  - "Do something boring"
  - "Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable"
  - "Do the last thing first"
  - "Do the words need changing?"
  - "Emphasize differences"
  - "Emphasize the flaws"
  - "Faced with a choice, do both (from Dieter Rot)"
  - "Find a safe part and use it as an anchor"
  - "Give the game away"
  - "Give way to your worst impulse"
  - "Go outside. Shut the door."
  - "Go to an extreme, come part way back"
  - "How would someone else do it?"
  - "How would you have done it?"
  - "In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly"
  - "Is it finished?"
  - "Is something missing?"
  - "Is the style right?"
  - "It is simply a matter or work"
  - "Just carry on"
  - "Listen to the quiet voice"
  - "Look at the order in which you do things"
  - "Magnify the most difficult details"
  - "Make it more sensual"
  - "Make what's perfect more human"
  - "Move towards the unimportant"
  - "Not building a wall; making a brick"
  - "Once the search has begun, something will be found"
  - "Only a part, not the whole"
  - "Only one element of each kind"
  - "Openly resist change"
  - "Pae White's non-blank graphic metacard"
  - "Question the heroic"
  - "Remember quiet evenings"
  - "Remove a restriction"
  - "Repetition is a form of change"
  - "Retrace your steps"
  - "Reverse"
  - "Simple Subtraction"
  - "Slow preparation, fast execution"
  - "State the problem as clearly as possible"
  - "Take a break"
  - "Take away the important parts"
  - "The inconsistency principle"
  - "The most easily forgotten thing is the most important"
  - "Think - inside the work -outside the work"
  - "Tidy up"
  - "Try faking it (from Stewart Brand)"
  - "Turn it upside down"
  - "Use an old idea"
  - "Use cliches"
  - "Use filters"
  - "Use something nearby as a model"
  - "Use 'unqualified' people"
  - "Use your own ideas"
  - "Voice your suspicions"
  - "Water"
  - "What context would look right?"
  - "What is the simplest solution?"
  - "What mistakes did you make last time?"
  - "What to increase? What to reduce? What to maintain?"
  - "What were you really thinking about just now?"
  - "What wouldn't you do?"
  - "What would your closest friend do?"
  - "When is it for?"
  - "Where is the edge?"
  - "Which parts can be grouped?"
  - "Work at a different speed"
  - "Would anyone want it?"
  - "Your mistake was a hidden intention"
