Coaching practices for Triz Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions at Work
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- I’ve been brainstorming this for hours and every idea is a slight variation on the same one
- I keep going in circles on this because every fix just shoves the problem somewhere else
- What I’ve built has gotten so complicated that it keeps breaking in new places, and I suspect half the moving parts are doing work something else could absorb
- Every option I’m weighing is just a tweak on what already exists
- My first instinct is always that I need more
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- TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions
TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) is a systematic innovation method developed by Genrich Altshuller after analyzing hundreds of thousands of patents. Its core insight is that most breakthrough problems contain a "technical or physical contradiction" — a situation where improving one parameter worsens another — and that inventors across fields resolve these contradictions using a surprisingly small set of recurring strategies. - Sample inventive principles to generate solution directions
Apply one or more of TRIZ’s 40 inventive principles as generative lenses, even without the full contradiction matrix.
TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions - Name the contradiction at the heart of the problem
State exactly which parameter you need to improve and which parameter gets worse as a result.
TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions - Trim components to find what you can remove
Systematically ask which components in your current solution could be removed if another component took over their function.
TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions - Define the ideal final result first
Describe the perfect outcome as if the solution already exists and costs nothing, then work backward to what could enable it.
TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions - Inventory available resources before adding anything new
List all time, space, information, and energy already present in or around the problem — solutions often hide there.
TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions - Combinatorial Creativity, Made Practical
Arthur Koestler’s bisociation theory holds that creative breakthroughs emerge when two previously unconnected frames of reference collide and suddenly fit — not from blank-slate invention but from unexpected combination. The practical implication is that creative output depends heavily on the breadth and diversity of your input: you can only combine what you have already absorbed. - Calibrate whether the problem requires invention or just search
Determine whether your problem is already solved elsewhere before investing in original invention.
TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions - Deconstruct the problem to its fundamentals
Break the problem into the few things you actually know to be true, with no inherited conclusions.
First-Principles Thinking, Made Usable - Koan practice
Hold a paradoxical question that the rational mind cannot solve, to provoke a non-conceptual shift.
Zen Practice (Zazen and Beyond)
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- How To Use Triz
TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) is a systematic innovation method developed by Genrich Altshuller after analyzing hundreds of thousands of patents. Its core insight is that most breakthrough problems contain a "technical or physical contradiction" — a situation where improving one parameter worsens another — and that inventors across fields resolve these contradictions using a surprisingly small set of recurring strategies.
- Physical Contradiction Triz
State exactly which parameter you need to improve and which parameter gets worse as a result.
Name the contradiction at the heart of the problem
- Technical Contradiction Triz
TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) is a systematic innovation method developed by Genrich Altshuller after analyzing hundreds of thousands of patents. Its core insight is that most breakthrough problems contain a "technical or physical contradiction" — a situation where improving one parameter worsens another — and that inventors across fields resolve these contradictions using a surprisingly small set of recurring strategies.
- Triz 40 Inventive Principles
Apply one or more of TRIZ’s 40 inventive principles as generative lenses, even without the full contradiction matrix.
Sample inventive principles to generate solution directions
- Triz Levels Of Invention
TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) is a systematic innovation method developed by Genrich Altshuller after analyzing hundreds of thousands of patents. Its core insight is that most breakthrough problems contain a "technical or physical contradiction" — a situation where improving one parameter worsens another — and that inventors across fields resolve these contradictions using a surprisingly small set of recurring strategies.
- Triz Systematic Invention And The Logic Of Contradictions As A Caregiver
TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) is a systematic innovation method developed by Genrich Altshuller after analyzing hundreds of thousands of patents. Its core insight is that most breakthrough problems contain a "technical or physical contradiction" — a situation where improving one parameter worsens another — and that inventors across fields resolve these contradictions using a surprisingly small set of recurring strategies.
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