Einstein once said “If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.” – Is there a book you’d recommend that teaches problem solving that you’d recommend?

I’m asking this because I want to be able to get better at solving problems in my day to day job (I work in tech). When someone presents a unique issue or one that’s slightly different, I sort of want to train my ability to think about problems.

Just to get it out of the way, I understand that on the base level I need to get the foundations to my area of expertise down, that I am aware of and it’s something I train several hours a day to do, but beyond fundamentals, I want to get better at “thinking” about the problem to try to utilize my abilities to solve them more efficiently.

Any suggestions?

by teddy022