You have this self-organizing, self-transcending, self-correcting process, Relevance Realization, which shapes and sculpts your salience landscape and you can hack the enlightenment by creating an ecology of psychotechnologies for RR to cultivate wisdom.
The problem solving method is any method for finding the sequence of transformations that will take you from the initial state, into the goal state while obeying the path constraints.
But you cannot search the whole space (Problem Space). For very, very many problems, the problems are combinatorially explosive and therefore you cannot search that space. You do not have the time, the machinery, the resources to search the whole space.
You somehow zero in on the relevant information and you make that information effective in your cognition, you do what I call relevance realization. You realise what's relevant.
One of the things that makes you crucially intelligent is your ability to zero in on relevant information.
One of the core aspects of intelligence is precisely your ability to avoid combinatorial explosion, make things salient and obvious and do this in this really dynamically self corrective fashion like when you have an insight.