
OBLIQUE SOLUTIONS
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State the problem in words as clearly as possible
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Only one element of each kind
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What would your closest friend do?
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What to increase? What to reduce?
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Are there sections? Consider transitions
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Try faking it!
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Honor thy error as a hidden intention
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Ask your body
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What would a child ask? The Three Why's Men
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Courage!
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" I just folded up the umbrella....."
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Go ahead and light the match
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Brag a little
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Go to an extreme, come back to a more comfortable place
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What are the sections sections of? Imagine a caterpillar moving
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Shut the door and listen from outside
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Breathe deeply
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Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action
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Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group
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Look at the order in which you do things
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What wouldn't you do?
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How would you explain it to a child?
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Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list
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Define an area as `safe' and use it as an anchor
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Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance
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Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them
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Don't be frightened of clichés
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Cluster analysis
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You can only make one dot at a time
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Use an old idea
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Use `unqualified' people
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Faced with a choice, do both
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Infinitesimal gradations
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It is quite possible (after all)
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Emphasize the flaws
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Simply a matter of work
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Work at a different speed
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Use an unacceptable color
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Is something missing?
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Abandon normal instructions
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What are you really thinking about just now?
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them
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Emphasize the differences
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Get dirty
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Speak in a child's voice
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Turn it upside down
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Give the game away
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He who MUST play, may NOT play
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Mute and continue
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Give way to your worst impulse
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A line has two sides
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Reverse
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Don't be frightened to display your talents
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Imagine the Music
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Do the words need changing?
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Look from new perspective - bottom up or top down
