Why Experiment?
British musician and music producer Brian Eno is considered one of the world’s most innovative and creative figures. He is known for constant experimentation. He says:
"Nearly everything I do starts as an experiment anyway, and the vast majority of things never make it on record. They're failures because they're not interesting pieces of music, but they teach me something. Someone once asked Edison why he patented several hundred different types of light bulbs before he hit on one that worked. He said 'I've discovered 1000s of ways of how a lightbulb doesn't work.' If you take that experimental attitude, nothing that you do is a failure."
Read about Eno’s famous Oblique Strategies, a set of prompts to unlock creative deadlocks. An example: “Honour thy error as a hidden intention.”