Fight For It – My 18th cardFunny summary:This card basically says:if an idea matters, expect resistance. Which means friendship may actually be one of the most dangerous projects humans keep attempting. Because unlike business plans or architecture diagrams, friendships involve emotions, misunderstandings, timing, pride, silence, bad days, and occasionally two people trying to interpret the … Read more
Look Somewhere Else – My 17th cardFunny summary:This card basically says:if you keep searching for ideas in the same place, eventually you’ll just rediscover your own old thoughts wearing fake mustaches. At some point even Google starts looking tired of you. So maybe the answer is:different books,different people,different streets,or walking 10 kilometers while mentally arguing … Read more
See! Hear! Taste! Feel! Smell! – My sixteenth cardFunny summary:This card basically says:stop trying to solve everything only with the brain. Sometimes you need to see the problem.Sometimes hear it.Sometimes smell it.And occasionally lick the architecture document to see if the solution tastes wrong. Honestly, after enough corporate meetings, some PowerPoints do have a very … Read more
Exaggerate – My fifthteen cardFunny summary:This card basically says:if your idea already sounds reasonable, you probably haven’t exaggerated it enough. So naturally my current emotional state is no longer:“slightly tired.” It is:a cosmic-level vacuum-packed king size mattress from Temu collapsing into a singularity while walking 10 kilometers through Sweden searching for lost dignity and possibly … Read more
Beware the Unintended – My fourteenth cardFunny summary: Today I feel like a vacuum-packed king size mattress from Temu somehow compressed into breast-pocket format.So the solution, naturally, is to walk at least 10 kilometers and hope the factory settings return somewhere around kilometer seven. Reflection:The card about unintended consequences feels strangely accurate. The rowing team … Read more
Substitute – My thirteenth cardThis card actually fits Don Quixote surprisingly well. He constantly substitutes reality with imagination:inns become castles,barbers become knights,ordinary women become princesses. Sometimes it makes him ridiculous.Sometimes strangely wise. And maybe that’s why the book still works:human beings survive not only through strength, but through the ability to reinterpret the world when … Read more
Give Yourself a Whack on the Side of the Head – My twelfth cardSometimes the best ideas don’t come from thinking harder.They come from disturbing the pattern a little. Take another road home.Read a strange book. Talk to someone unexpected.Move one tiny thing in life… and suddenly the brain wakes up again. Maybe that’s why … Read more
Avoid Arrogance – My eleventh cardThe moment you think reality must obey you…Waterloo is usually already on its way. The biggest mistakes often come right after you start believing you’ve already won. Napoleon saw himself as unbeatable.And that was exactly where the blindness began. What I also like is that the card doesn’t say:“be weak” … Read more
Try a Random Idea – My tenth cardMaybe today isn’t for solving life.Maybe today is just for getting through the chapter. More thoughts like this → Creative Whack Pack
See the Obvious – My ninth cardThe answer is often obvious. Just not the one we hoped for…so we keep looking. More thoughts like this → Creative Whack Pack