
Jun 17, 2026·medium.com
Problem-Forming Beats Problem-Solving
Most education and training focuses on solving well-defined puzzles with clear information and single correct answers. But the real world rarely presents problems this way.
The best problem solvers don’t just solve given problems — they excel at forming the right problems in the first place. This requires deep domain immersion, observing anomalies, talking to people on the ground, and building prototypes to discover what actually matters.