Amazon recently debuted “Inspired Problem Solving,” a spiritual. self-help book by Rosaland Fain Tyler, who grew up in Morristown and briefly worked as a journalism instructor at Walters State Community College after she earned her master’s degree in journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

“Inspired Problem Solving” is a 206-page, self-help book that Amazon released in January 2026. It urges people to notice how they often experience but rarely act on Aha moments, epiphanies, or hunches. The book has three chapters that explore the three stages of problem solving– the conceptual, execution and post-problem stages. It not only includes multiple studies that show areas in the brain illuminated while participants were trying to solve simple word puzzles or other problems while connected to brain monitoring devices but also argues human beings are innately brilliant. Human beings are natural-born solvers since God made man in his image, according to Genesis.

“I hope my relatives, friends and neighbors will read my book because it will motivate them to execute an unexpected idea that seems to come out of thin air,” said Fain-Tyler, who is the daughter of the late Robert and Irene Fain. Her father retired as director of the Morristown Housing Authority. Her mother taught cosmetology and retired from Morristown Public Schools.

The book also includes stories about Renaissance artists who produced an unprecedented number of masterpieces because artists like Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo DaVinci believed God actually shares his genius with man.

“It’s never too late to act on an unexpected but brilliant idea that seems to come out of thin air or unexpectedly arises up under your nose since the word inspire means “breath” (pneuma in Greek) and “wind (ruach) in Hebrew,” she said. “Inspire also means “spirit” in Latin.”

“For the past few years I have returned home to attend a steady stream of funerals. So you need to act on a brilliant idea right now,” she said, explaining how her book includes many case studies which show some great ideas had a short shelf life. “Some inventors failed to file patents for groundbreaking ideas, for example. Other great ideas gathered dust. However new inventors had a similar idea and actually executed it and made history.”

Tyler, who was a member of Bethel United Methodist Church when she resided in Morristown, said she grew up attending church with her parents.”I grew up listening to my stern but kind Sunday School teachers at Young’s Temple AMEZ Church. We called them the Johnson sisters at the time. Their names, Miss Daisy and Miss Cleo, will sound familiar to many local folks.The point is they taught me I could do anything. The same applies to congregants who attended church with my father, who was a lifetime member of Bethel Baptist Church on Cherokee Drive. Some of them were also my teachers at Judson S. Hill and Morristown East High School.”

“This is why my book explores spirituality. All of my teachers inspired me in ways that I cannot fully describe,” said Tyler who resides in Virginia Beach and has worked as the associate editor of a weekly newspaper in Norfolk for two decades. She is currently working on her second book, “Water Under the Bridge,” which will explore the three stages of conflict resolution and will be released by Amazon in June.