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How to make mistakes on purpose : bring chaos to your order / Laurie Rosenwald.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Hachette Go, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 153 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780306925160
  • 0306925168
Subject(s):
Contents:
Trying to be creative works about as well as trying to be charming -- Your pointless quest for perfection -- Foes : fear of empty space -- Bring chaos to your order -- Divine accidents -- Fireworks, Viagra, LSD, champagne, Pringles, and popsicles? Yes, please -- The problem with problem solving -- Sometimes not trying works better than trying -- Mindfulness causes angst, or why P.G. Wodehouse is my therapist -- Errare humanum est! -- Do the random thing -- To zig when others zag -- It's a canary because I say so! -- Giotto's big O -- Quantity over quality -- Make war, not love -- Pacifism ... the hard way -- Vox populi knows better than you do -- Get lost on purpose -- Misdirection -- That's not the Rashomon I remember -- There's a nipple in my room! -- The emperor's new nudity -- Do the opposite -- Spoiled for choice -- Amortize this -- Be bad.
Summary: "Based on her popular workshop, artist, designer and author Laurie Rosenwald reveals her unique approach to coming up with ideas through unconventional creativity hacks and prompts"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 153.35 R816 Available 33111010765176
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Based on Laurie Rosenwald's popular workshop, How to Make Mistakes On Purpose reveals an intuitive, entertaining way to come up with truly original ideas.

Three generations of humans have now been molded into results-oriented workers who cannot mess up, and therefore may never innovate either. Shared software, skills, and experiences equal no surprises. Surrounded by the unwavering, reliable results made possible by a machine, we all marinate in this ubiquitous cybersauce. Behold! Thousands of shiny new apps, sites, products, and services that look, feel, and are essentially the same. Because computers don't make mistakes.



Chance is the natural foil to the digital. We combine both for originality. This makes for the kind of exciting, hopeful future we want. We embrace technology but need to slap it around a bit to get someplace new.



Human error sparks connections. In a relaxed situation where one's hypercritical demons are AWOL, the snap, crackle, pop of brainstorms happen all around us.



A fresh, colorful guide to discovery, with clearly marked directions and witty prompts, this is a book about living a productive, individualistic life. Whatever your job, it gives you a way to zig while everyone around you can only zag. It will also make you laugh along the way.

Trying to be creative works about as well as trying to be charming -- Your pointless quest for perfection -- Foes : fear of empty space -- Bring chaos to your order -- Divine accidents -- Fireworks, Viagra, LSD, champagne, Pringles, and popsicles? Yes, please -- The problem with problem solving -- Sometimes not trying works better than trying -- Mindfulness causes angst, or why P.G. Wodehouse is my therapist -- Errare humanum est! -- Do the random thing -- To zig when others zag -- It's a canary because I say so! -- Giotto's big O -- Quantity over quality -- Make war, not love -- Pacifism ... the hard way -- Vox populi knows better than you do -- Get lost on purpose -- Misdirection -- That's not the Rashomon I remember -- There's a nipple in my room! -- The emperor's new nudity -- Do the opposite -- Spoiled for choice -- Amortize this -- Be bad.

"Based on her popular workshop, artist, designer and author Laurie Rosenwald reveals her unique approach to coming up with ideas through unconventional creativity hacks and prompts"-- Provided by publisher.

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