Roger von Oech
Roger von Oech
Roger von Oechis an American speaker, conference organizer, author, and toy-maker whose focus has been on the study of creativity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth6 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational letting-go creativity
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
wall people goal
The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.
thinking looks world
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
way excuse
What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?
thinking opposites people
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
life taken college
By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right answer approach becomes deeply ingrained in our thinking. This may be fine for some mathematical problems where there is in fact only one right answer. The difficulty is that most of life isn’t this way. Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers- all depending on what you’re looking for. But if you think there is only one right answer, then you’ll stop looking as soon as you find one.
letting-go goodbye falling-in-love
If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of life's great pleasures is letting go of a previously cherished idea. Then you're free to look for new ones. What part of your idea are you in love with? What would happen if you kissed it goodbye?
trying-something-new risk shapes
Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.
failure opportunity two
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
real lying ideas
Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.
inspirational life-is-like trying
Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.
inspirational morning school
Open your mind up to things that have no connection with the problem you're trying to solve: subscribe to an unusual magazine; spend a morning at an elementary school; go to work two hours early; test drive an exotic car; attend a city council meeting; ...try an Indonesian recipe.
ideas ifs dies
If you don't execute your ideas, they die.
ideas environment born
New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.