In thinking about how different people approach their problems, large and small, several thoughts and images came to mind. 

Some people are fearful of, and even fall in love with, their problems. They put them on a pedestal and build a shrine to them. They stare at them, think about them, getting smaller relative to them all the while. They sing praises to them in the form of complaint, not even realizing that no one else appreciates their tune. In idolatrous fashion, they sacrifice all manner of things to them, even sacrificing themselves. This is not what problems are for. 

Problems should be appropriately studied, not obsessively, but to extract learnings and to determine solutions. To solve them they must be dimensioned. After they have served this purpose, they should be strung up nice and tall, and then beat to pieces like a piñata. Something sweet will hopefully come out of it.