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Sage advice perhaps one of us can follow

Learn to appreciate new and unexpected problems. Old and expected problems yield readily to old and tested responses.  By and large, if you are competent in anything, you should learn to anticipate and avoid them.

But new problems offer opportunities.  It doesn’t feel like that.  It certainly feels like effort.  But don’t add the weight of resentment to the weight of consideration and action, of response, perhaps failure, and another response, and perhaps another failure, until a new pattern is established, and your unknown problem becomes a known problem, and your circle of “influence”, which is to say, of competent action, expands proportionately.

I do regularly encounter new problems.  I do not regularly embrace them.  I swear, mostly, then get pissed, then calm myself down, suck it up, and focus until I get a good enough resolution.  This is not the best way to play this game.  This is not the switched on, every day is beautiful, response.

I know I can do better.  You likely can too.  And if you never see new problems, try harder.  Do something you’ve never done before.  No reason not to spend your time until you die mid-sentence trying out new ways to screw up, and then recover from it.