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A Baby Elephant Shows What To Do When You’re Stuck

We watched this amazing video and thought, yeah, we’ve been there…

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The Challenge and Wonder of Boxhood (Emil Ferris)

Emil Ferris, creator of the breakout graphic novel, My Favorite Thing is Monsters, writes eloquently about the misunderstood notion of thinking outside the box. She knows what she’s talking about; she’s navigated extraordinary challenges with aplomb.

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Strategy: Turn Stuff Inside Out

A really useful but painfully ugly shopping bag pushed us to feel our way to an instant makeover. In the process, we were reminded of an essential principle for finding solutions to vexing problems.

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Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies via David Bowie

Judging from his worn and taped together set of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, David Bowie really made use of the cards designed to SHIFT your head when you’ve hit a creative block or impasse. Now long out of print, we found a digital version…

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