Back in the day when I was learning how to best fit into a remote engineering team I spent a lot of time thinking about how to get things done. One thing I decided early on was that I would never, ever, mention a 'problem' unless I had spent time thinking about a solution and had at least one viable solution to propose. If I couldn't come up with one, I would simply dismiss the problem from my consiousness. Then in any meeting or interaction, I would bring up the problem and my proposed solution at the same time.

Being surrounded by problems is common in engineering, and maybe in life too. This technique worked. You will not be seen as complaining constantly about problems, and might actually have a chance fixing them and rallying toward something that will solve them.

Now when I apply this to regular life, it's interesting because I realize that nobody does this, they don't have a solution. Them complaining about a problem IS as far as they will ever go toward a solution.

Anyway, GM coffeechain! ☕