Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talks a fair bit about how the greats don't solve what are thought to be the pre-existing problems of their field, but find

Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talks a fair bit about how the greats don't solve what are thought to be the pre-existing problems of their field, but find solutions for problems no-one else even realized was a problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? – Emerson, Representative Men (That seems related to Emerson's remark that though he didn't have a musical ear, he had musical eyes. I like that.)