Solving Problems

... It is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct."

Fearing the pain involved, almost all of us ... attempt to avoid problems. We procastinate, forget them, pretend they do not exist. We even take drugs to assist us in ignoring them, so that by deadening ourselves to the pain we can forget the problems that cause the pain. - Scott Peck, M.D, The Road Less Traveled, p. 16