When we analyze the real objective behind all our activities, we find that it is noting but happiness. The immediate objective may be buying a house, winning a fight or earning some money; but the ultimate objective is always to gain happiness. If the ultimate objective is to gain happiness, it is necessary to orient our activities properly in order to gain maximum happiness. Wrong oriented activities may fail to achieve our goal and result in unhappiness, pain, anger and frustration.
Different philosophical schools define happiness differently. Some say that happiness is a mental phenomenon and purely subjective (created by our own mind), some say that it is objective (comes from outside), some others say that it is a combination of mental and physical phenomena (created by our mind because of events outside). Some believe that the true happiness comes from satisfaction of doing good things. Some believe that happiness comes from within, from the internal self. Some believe that happiness comes from God. Some believe that happiness comes from the object or person whom you love, may be your spouse, may be your profession, may be from music.
TRIZ is a method of high level of commonsense and can be applied in any field, whether social, economical, technical or spiritual. This article analyzes the concept of happiness, the ultimate goal of human being, and demonstrates the application of different TRIZ concepts like Ideality, contradictions, Principles, Resources and Trends in different theories of maximizing happiness.
Continue Reading… Written by Umakant Mishra, Posted on 10-02-2012, 13:51
Although we are born and brought up in society, we are sometimes hurt by the offensive behavior of some people in our family and society, may be by the so-called friends or rivals or enemies. If we suppress our anger and don’t fight with them then we suffer from depression, frustration and other emotional disorders. On the other hand if we express our anger to fight back then the situation may become worse by inviting bigger fights and more violence. The question arises, how to solve this problem?
There are both fighting solutions and non-fighting solutions to this problem. Non-fighting solutions are better than fighting solutions because they reduce anger and violence. They are not only good for individuals but also good for society and world. However, the drawback of non-fighting solutions is that generally, there is no feeling of our enemy getting punished. Although a higher ego (the rationality within us) is satisfied with such solutions, a lower ego (the animality within us) is not happy to see our enemy moving free or hurting us again.
Ideally, we don’t want to set up a fight with anybody but we want to see our enemy is punished. We don’t want to kill our enemy by ourselves or by deploying others but we want to see that the enemy is dead. We don’t want to follow any method of violence but we want to see all our enemies dying before us. This article gives a solution to achieve this goal.
Continue Reading… Written by Umakant Mishra, Posted on 30-01-2012, 02:16
I take this opportunity to write a few words about Dr. Toru Nakagawa, whose contribution to TRIZ is recognized by every TRIZ professional around the world. Dr. Nakagawa has been working dedicatedly on TRIZ and USIT since more than a decade. He actively participates in almost all international conferences on TRIZ including TRIZCON (organized by AI, USA), ETRIA TFC (organized by ETRIA) and TRIZ Symposium in Japan (organized by Japan TRIZ Society). He is one of the key persons to organize TRIZ Symposium in Japan, an International conference since 2005.
Continue Reading… Written by Umakant Mishra, Posted on 17-01-2012, 08:23
This article reviews the 40 principles in the context of software industry and rephrases the principles and their applications to make them suitable for software problems. This article can be used as a valuable reference for all software inventors. (This article was first published in TRIZsite Journal in July 2006. This is a repeat publication.)
Continue Reading… Written by Umakant Mishra, Posted on 17-01-2012, 08:02
Software is very difficult to develop but very easy to copy. By copying the software the copier creates an exact duplicate of the original software and use without paying for it. If the copier copies the soruce code then he might even claim to be the developer. Hence most large developing companies are keen on protecting their software investments through patents…(This article was first published in TRIZsite Journal in June 2006. This is a repeat publication.)
Continue Reading… Written by Umakant Mishra, Posted on 17-01-2012, 07:33
