It is the dark side of the engineer's mindset. The engineer thinks of neat problems and solutions.
However, that works only when you're dealing with certain types of contexts.
Many things can only be "improved", "managed" and "satisficed". For example, for many a politician, social stability, keeping the economic system going, maintaining peace can be considered "success".
Reading the biographies of people from different professions, and understanding their thinking seems to have helped me.
Another thing viewpoint is to see everything as a process, that just keeps running and evolving. Usually there is never a final solution to things. What's considered a "solved" problem pops up again in the future in some other form. Many problems are highly contextual, dependent on time/place. When the environment changes, the so-called "solution" no longer works.
Such flexibility of thought, that of questioning the limited paradigm of problem/solution may help as well.
However, that works only when you're dealing with certain types of contexts.
Many things can only be "improved", "managed" and "satisficed". For example, for many a politician, social stability, keeping the economic system going, maintaining peace can be considered "success".
Reading the biographies of people from different professions, and understanding their thinking seems to have helped me.
Another thing viewpoint is to see everything as a process, that just keeps running and evolving. Usually there is never a final solution to things. What's considered a "solved" problem pops up again in the future in some other form. Many problems are highly contextual, dependent on time/place. When the environment changes, the so-called "solution" no longer works.
Such flexibility of thought, that of questioning the limited paradigm of problem/solution may help as well.