You can try to solve your own problems, and see where they might be problems for other people, too. If you've run out of problems, you can try to be either more

You can try to solve your own problems, and see where they might be problems for other people, too. If you've run out of problems, you can try to be either more curious, or more discriminating. You can hold a tool in the back of your head, and try applying it to everything, to see if it might fit. This requires discipline. It is often much better to hold a problem in your head, and see if new tools might apply, Feynman used this technique to great effect. Or you can try to solve other people problems. This requires insight, but it also requires empathy. This is a hard thing to cultivate. It can't be turned on like a switch, and it's difficult to empathize with those far from your life experience. But there are many people who've lived lives similar to yours -- if your friends don't have any problems in their lives, they are unusually charmed.