Set something on fire for a better tomorrow or something.

You may have noticed: if it isn't one thing, it's another.
We've always got troubles. As soon as one thing is fixed, something else has broken. Factor in the stuff that requires constant upkeep and the fixed stuff that's actually still broken after all, and it's no wonder people are always so stressed out. From the individual up to societies and the species itself, we're always putting out fires.
So my suggestion is: Relax. Take a more Zen look at the whole thing. Be a little playful. Solve a problem with lasers. Tricky? So what? The problem's not going away while you figure it out. Can't be done? No worries. There's plenty of other problems that maybe lasers will work on. Go find one, maybe, or try rubber bands instead. Whatever. We seem to have a completely inexhaustible supply of problems; it's no big deal if you screw a few up trying something new.

It's just like they told you in elementary school: There's no such thing as a problem, only opportunities. Opportunities to shoot stuff with lasers, or clone crazy monsters, or stay up all night building a contraption that was designed on a badly stained bar napkin. You could be doing any one of these possibly more interesting or entertaining things instead of plonking away at the same boring problems in the same boring ways.
Why aren't you?