Creative Whack Pack – card of the day
Creative Whack Pack
Sell, Sell, Sell – My 28th card
Sell, Sell, Sell My 28th card.Funny summary: This card basically says:”You can write the greatest masterpiece in human history…but if
Don’t Fall In Love With Ideas – My 27th card
Don’t Fall In Love With Ideas My 27th cardThis card basically says:“Congratulations. You didn’t fall in love with a person,
Ask A Fool – My 26th card
Ask A Fool – My 26th cardFunny summary:This card basically says:“Every serious organization secretly needs one professional idiot.”Because eventually every
See The Big Picture – My 25th card
See The Big Picture – My 25th cardFunny summary:This card basically says:“Congratulations.You invented a train.Unfortunately you also invented:competition, faster capitalism,
Get Support – My 24th card
Get Support – My 24th card.Funny summary:This card basically says:“Even geniuses need people around them saying:‘Yes, your weird little idea
Be Dissatisfied – My 23th card
Be Dissatisfied – My 23th card.Funny summary:This card basically says:“Congratulations. Your inability to relax might actually be a feature.”Some people
Imagine How Other Would Do It – My 22th card
Imagine How Other Would Do It – My 22th cardFunny summary:This card is basically saying:“Your idea is good.Now let someone
Find What’s out of Whack – My 21 th card
Find What’s out of Whack – My 21 th cardFunny summary:Every creative person has two personalities:“This is brilliant.”and five minutes
Solve the Right Problem – My 20th card
Solve the Right Problem – My 20th cardSometimes humans are amazing.The piano sounds terrible.So instead of tuning it…someone paints it.Which
Conform – My 19th card
Conform – My 19th cardFunny Summay:Humanity basically runs on:“Those people do it that way.”“Okay, I guess we also do it
Fight For It – My 18th card
Fight For It – My 18th cardFunny summary:This card basically says:if an idea matters, expect resistance. Which means friendship may
Look Somewhere Else – My 17th card
Look Somewhere Else – My 17th cardFunny summary:This card basically says:if you keep searching for ideas in the same place,
See! Hear! Taste! Feel! Smell! – My sixteenth card
See! Hear! Taste! Feel! Smell! – My sixteenth cardFunny summary:This card basically says:stop trying to solve everything only with the
Exaggerate – My fifthteen card
Exaggerate – My fifthteen cardFunny summary:This card basically says:if your idea already sounds reasonable, you probably haven’t exaggerated it enough.
Beware the Unintended – My fourteenth card
Beware the Unintended – My fourteenth cardFunny summary:Today I feel like a vacuum-packed king size mattress from Temu somehow compressed
Substitute – My thirteenth card
Substitute – My thirteenth cardThis card actually fits Don Quixote surprisingly well. He constantly substitutes reality with imagination:inns become castles,barbers
Give Yourself a Whack on the Side of the Head – My twelfth card
Give Yourself a Whack on the Side of the Head – My twelfth cardSometimes the best ideas don’t come from
Avoid Arrogance – My eleventh card
Avoid Arrogance – My eleventh cardThe moment you think reality must obey you…Waterloo is usually already on its way. The
Try a Random Idea – My tenth card
Try a Random Idea – My tenth cardMaybe today isn’t for solving life.Maybe today is just for getting through the
See the Obvious – My ninth card
See the Obvious – My ninth cardThe answer is often obvious. Just not the one we hoped for…so we keep
Listen to that Hunch – My eighth card
Listen to that Hunch – My eighth cardNot every hunch is wisdom.Some are just fear… wearing a calm voice. And
Focus on the Real Truth – My seventh card
Focus on the Real Truth – My seventh cardTruth isn’t singularit’s directional — depending on where you stand and what
Get out of Your Box – My sixth card
Get out of Your Box – My sixth cardEach culture, and honestly each profession, lives in its own little bubble.
See the positive – My fifth card
See the positive – My fifth cardReal life version Sometimes the positive isn’t the outcome.It’s the intention. You help someone
Combine ideas – My fourth card
Combine ideas – My fourth cardChapter 22 meets this card perfectly.Don Quixote combines ideas that don’t belong together: justice +
Pause for a Bit – My third card
Pause for a Bit – My third cardSometimes the solution isn’t more force.It’s to stop pushing. You chase the answer…but
Rearrange – My second card
Rearrange – My second cardRearranging isn’t about changing reality.It’s about changing how you place things inside it. Nature doesn’t invent
Slay a sacred cow – My first card
Slay a sacred cow – My first cardWe read as if there is a right way.Start. Understand. Finish.But what if
A Small Experiment
A Small ExperimentA few years ago I bought something called Creative Whack Pack.It’s basically a deck of cards, but instead