Find a useful next move.
A Way is an exercise you can apply to your own work. Browse the twelve public Ways by edition or situation.
Showing 12 Ways. Situation filters may overlap.
Follow the fragment
You do not need the whole answer before you begin.
begin · idea · stuck
Try the bad idea
An intentionally wrong direction can reveal what sensible thinking keeps hidden.
idea · stuck · perspective
Stay with not knowing
An unresolved question can be more productive than a premature answer.
begin · decide · perspective
Don't try to be original
Originality can emerge from attention to the work rather than attention to originality.
idea · perspective · decide
Protect the fragile thing
The problems in an early idea are visible before its possibilities are.
stuck · decide · begin
Make the smallest version
Reduce the idea until reality can answer you.
begin · stuck · decide
Leave your tricks behind
Remove the tendencies that keep producing the same answer.
stuck · perspective · change
Let the response change it
The work can become different once it meets the world.
stuck · decide · change
Change the conditions
When effort stops producing information, alter the system around the work.
stuck · change · perspective
Let other people finish the painting
Use can reveal extensions the original author could not design alone.
perspective · change · decide
Start with a clean slate
Leaving the previous material behind can restore your contact with the question.
change · stuck · decide
Return to beginner's mind
Expertise can conceal possibilities that inexperience would still attempt.
change · idea · perspective