Randy Pierce and his dog Quinn, sitting in the snow, enter the record books as the first blind man and guide dog to summit all of New Hampshire’s forty-eight highest mountains during a single winter. “I consider setting a goal like this as “Positive Adversity.” I have challenged myself with a task which I must then problem-solve and persevere to achieve. The more worthwhile the challenge, the more it is going to seem like it has a few brick walls. This is why I think the idea of “Positive Adversity” is so important-because the goal has to be sufficiently rewarding to justify the effort and potential pain involved in the process of achieving it.