As a therapist, most of my day is spent helping clients solve a problem: With their emotions—anxiety or depression—with their relationships—their boss, partner, kids. What I’m always most curious ...

Maybe it’s more about being with the discomfort rather than going straight into fixing,” my therapist offered. My spine ...

The first task is always to determine in which administrative domain the problem is occurring. None of these teams will ever admit that they might be the source of the problem, so test tools are ...

Problem-finding Problem-finding involves recognizing and defining issues that may not be immediately apparent; therefore, they are hidden — sometimes knowingly, but most of the time unknowingly. It’s ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...