Roger von Oech

Expect the Unexpected (or You Won't Find It): A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus

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Produktbeschreibung

Open your mind with the creative enigmas of Heraclitus. These innovation strategies--from "You Can't Step in the Same River Twice" to "Dogs Bark at What They Don't Understand"--are as relevant today as they were 2,500 years ago when this provocative Greek philosopher wrote them.

Roger von Oech breathes fresh life into these ancient ideas to produce a treasury of useful creativity insights including "Appreciate Turbulence," "Practice Forgetting," "Ask a Fool," "See the Obvious," "Connect the Unconnected," "Find a Pattern," "Use What's Not There," and "Reverse Assumptions."

Whether you read it from start to finish as a creativity workbook, or consult it as a daily oracle, Expect the Unexpected or You Won't Find It offers a welcome jolt to the imagination!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers / McGraw-Hill Professional
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9781576752272
• ISBN-10: 1576752275
• Artikelnr.: 10962700

Autorenporträt

Roger von Oech

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Your Mind with Heraclitus
1. The First Creativity Teacher
2. Heraclitus' Goal: Awaken Our Minds
3. Heraclitus' Life and Times
4. Heraclitus' Method: Search Within
5. Solve Heraclitus' Creative Enigmas
6. How to Use Heraclitus as an Oracle
7. Put on Your Creativity Hat

Part II: The Creative Enigmas of Heraclitus
8. The Cosmos Speaks in Patterns
9. Expect the Unexpected, or You Won't Find It
10. Everything Flows
11. You Can't Step Into the Same River Twice
12. That Which Opposes Produces a Benefit
13. A Wonderful Harmony Is Created When We Join
14. If All Things Turned to Smoke, the Nose Would Become the Discerning Organ
15. The Sun Will not Exceed its Limits, Because the Avenging Furies, Ministers of Justice, Would Find Out
16. Lovers of Wisdom Must Open their Minds to Very Many Things
17. I Searched into Myself
18. Knowing Many Things Doesn't Teach Insight
19. Many Fail to Grasp What's Right in the Palm of their Hand