The goal-path analysis sees the creative process as a process that overcomes personal limitations and gives the inventor/discoverer something new. Just as mathematics builds all its ideas using the means of logic on postulates, definitions and proofs, in the creative process people personally build something new (insights, inventions, actions) with words and deeds by varying the goal, model ideas and selected data from reality. At least that is what the heuristics of the goal-path analysis believe.

More about the heuristics of the goal-path analysis here (link).