So recently I've been working on a project but I just don't know how to do it (i've even asked online how to solve), which makes me think some people are just naturally good problem solvers and others (like me) aren't, I can solve half the problems that are given to me, but often the time I just can't do it, which makes me think only a select few can do this.

It was like this at college also, I could solve some problems, but not like the other students, they came out with distinctions while I just scraped a pass, they know where to look for some of these problems but I have no clue where they found the solution, it's the whole reason I just don't really care, because I know i'm not as smart as them. Half the time you just can't be asked with it, for other smarter students they can all do it easily with flying colours, wheras I just can't be asked with it as it's probably something I can't solve.

Edited April 29, 20197 yr by NullDrone

Practice practice practice.  I'm not naturally good at solving problems, barely scraped a C in GCSE Mathematics and I've done alright as a developer.  If I don't understand something I keep repeating it until I can.

 

Got a complex problem then break it down into smaller problems and solve them one by one.  the bits that are still too hard boils down to a lack of fundamental knowledge about the language and/or data structures so I'd spend some time learning them.

I think your problem is you think it's easy for other people, but the likelihood is those people you think might be smarter have actually just spent less time procrastinating and more time learning and devoting many hours to improving.  It was never easy for them, but appears so now because any problem becomes much simpler when you have solved and internalised it.
Things that feel very straightforward for me and natural were once really challenging to wrap my head around, it's the same for many people.