The Uniquely Positive Role of Problems In Our Lives Problems have gotten a bad rap. We live in a problem obsessed culture. Many people are preoccupied with how to avoid them. If that’s not possible they think the next best thing is to figure out how to overcome them. We think about them so much people wax eloquent about them. Here is a site with hundreds of pithy quotes about problems. One such quote that sums up this paragraph is   If you are in the midst of a problem right now did reading that quote make you feel better? Probably ...