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Can you share what you started with?
Sounds like you focused on big economic/ world/ country / city problems.
Try refine to personal problems that you encounter on a really frequent basis that irritate you - the kind of problem where you know someone can come up with a solution, and you’d buy it.
So it would be really easy for example to say look at “world hunger” - avoid those ones
Instead look at issue like “damn every time I go shopping forget to buy toilet roll, if only someone would just give me a subscription delivery of TP”
So look at smaller problems on a human level if you get my meaning.
5whys is a Toyota investigation tool, aimed at getting to the root underlying cause of the issue. It’s a tool, you use it as you see fit as an aid to help you think through the problem eg with the toilet paper example
Why do you forget your toilet paper
So my doing this kind of interview you widen some of the solutions -
i looked into it from a personal way, like for example i hate how fast my car get dirty, and after using the five whys methods, the root problem turned out to be the shoe i wear, and the big question was how do i stop my shoe from collecting dust and rocks? but if i want to take it a step further, a lot of possible solutions are already out there or that people wouldn't car buying the product.