Sometime You Need to Have Faith, Guts or Just Plain Foolishness

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What words would you use to describe? bravery, courage, backbone, Nerve, pluck, spirit, boldness, audacity, daring, grit, fearlessness, feistiness, toughness, determination, spunk, moxie, folly, stupidity, idiocy, imbecility, silliness, inanity, thoughtlessness, imprudence, injudiciousness, lack of foresight, lack of sense, irresponsibility, indiscretion, foolhardiness, rashness, recklessness, trust, belief, confidence, conviction, optimism, hopefulness.

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How to Have an Accident at Work

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Improve your Innovations and Brainstorming Sessions by Taking a Break

Improve your Innovations and Brainstorming sessions by taking a break –

Working in 20 minute segments with a short 1-5 minute break between sessions may improve your problem solving ability.

 

What do during that few minute break? Get a drink of water,  and read  something totally removed from your problem.

For example this vignette by T.S. Elliot

 

Looks like a case of the hoo-has
When you’re alone in the middle of the night
and you wake in a sweat and a hell of a fright
When you’re alone in the middle of the bed
and you wake like someone hit you on the head
You’ve had a cream of a nightmare dream
and you’ve got the hoo-ha’s coming to you . . .
And perhaps you’re alive
And perhaps you’re dead
Hoo ha ha Hoo ha ha Hoo Hoo Hoo

- −T. S. Eliot

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TRIZ 40 Inventive Principles

1. Segmentation
2. Extraction, separation, removal, segregation
3. Local quality
4. Asymmetry
5. Combining, integration, merging
6. Universality, multi-functionality
7. Nested doll
8. Counterweight, levitation
9. Preliminary anti-action, prior counteraction
10. Prior action
11. Cushion in advance, prior counteraction
12. Equipotentiality, remove stress
13. Inversion, the other way around
14. Spheroidality, curvilinearity
15. Dynamicity, optimization
16. Partial or excessive action
17. Moving to a new dimension
18. Mechanical vibration/oscillation
19. Periodic action
20. Continuity of a useful action
21. Rushing through
22. Convert harm into benefit, “blessing in disguise”
23. Feedback
24. Mediator, intermediary
25. Self-service, self-organization
26. Copying
27. Cheap, disposable objects
28. Replacement of a mechanical system with ‘fields’
29. Pneumatics or hydraulics
30. Flexible membranes or thin film
31. Use of porous materials
32. Changing color or optical properties
33. Homogeneity
34. Rejection and regeneration, discarding and recovering
35. Transformation of the physical and chemical states of an object, parameter change, changing properties
36. Phase transformation
37. Thermal expansion
38. Use strong oxidizers, enriched atmospheres, accelerated oxidation
39. Inert environment or atmosphere
40. Composite materials

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Imagination – Pascal

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
- Blaise Pascal

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