This textbook armsthe reader with powerful techniques of Modern TRIZ self-training andreal
problem solving. It is designed as a simple and efficient step-by-step crash course in primary
TRIZ models based on the author's methods of extraction and reinvention or retrieval of
invention models from any real-life objects. Special content addresses the psychological
support of the person during problem solving andpromotion of the new idea to realization. The
book introduces the so-calledTheory of Developing the Creative Personality (TDCP) initiated
but notcompleted by Genrikh Altshuller father of TRIZ and TDCP. The textbook continues to
develop a simple standard model presentation of the problem solving process with a four-step
Meta-Algorithm of Invention (MAI) T-R-I-Z.
