My advice would be to enroll in graduate school. It is not a coincidence that the article was written by a Nobel price winning scientist. To be successful in s

My advice would be to enroll in graduate school. It is not a coincidence that the article was written by a Nobel price winning scientist. To be successful in science you to be in this creative mode of operation all the time. Even if you are solving a "real" problem (the kind you get funded to solve), your inspiration for doing so needs to come from all over the place.