Oblique Strategies.

One of my absolute favorite things that Eno did (along with the late artist Peter Schmidt) is to create the Oblique Strategies oracle card set.  I've found these very useful in removing blockages in my own creative process.  Each card contains a phrase or cryptic remark which can be used to break a deadlock or dilemma situation.  As the box says, "over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas."

As Eno says himself, "These cards evolved from our separate working procedures. It was one of the many cases during the friendship that he [Peter Schmidt] and I where we arrived at a working position at almost exactly the same time and almost in exactly the same words. There were times when we hadn't seen each other for a few months at a time sometimes, and upon remeeting or exchanging letters, we would find that we were in the same intellectual position - which was quite different from the one we'd been in prior to that.

"The Oblique Strategies evolved from me being in a number of working situations when the panic of the situation - particularly in studios - tended to make me quickly forget that there were others ways of working and that there were tangential ways of attacking problems that were in many senses more interesting than the direct head-on approach."

Below is a link to an online version.  There are also downloadable versions available.

http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html