If you see something as a problem and try to trick your mind into seeing it as a challenge, you're simply lying to yourself because you perceived it as a problem first and have to convince yourself otherwise while everything in your rational mind screams it's a problem.
It could be the matrix, but that just means that the unfortunate player who cannot perceive outside of the matrix is limited by its perceptual boundaries and enslaved to the societal structures in place, which is a problem to the player.