Struggling with a hard problem in search of a solution and not being able to move forward for prolonged times creates lots of sparks and those sparks are important to catch. If not caught right away and postponed for after the problem is solved, most of them might disappear into the thin air of imminent importance until the next time they are needed which is especially bad if their potential for change is underestimated. So instead, allow yourself to wander off while solving a problem, experiment more with the problem while on it, and replace the unease of having a pending unsolved such with playfulness on what interesting sparks you might catch from facing it.

Coming to think more about it, to solve a problem is to live a life. An unresolved problem implies another reason to live and beyond every solution and beyond every goal, no matter how big or how small, there lies just the void interlude to finding yet another goal and yet another problem to solve. If the void is beyond every goal then life can only be found before the goal. Before-ness being an unsolved-ness of a problem, living must be turning sparks into fire. To take this further, harder problems pose even larger reasons to be where you are as they make even more sparks from crashing with a gritty will. More sparks are more chances to catch one that transforms into a life of its own in a lifetime of overturning transformation.

Key takeaways: Let go of the ultimatum of each goal. Prioritize the things you know just as much as the things you don't know. People that play with problems for longer find more creative and better solutions overall.