Nice post @fisteganos. It's the type of concept that's easy to grasp when sitting comfortably in a cinema seat as you say but we are not geared well generally to apply such sensible thinking to ourselves when things get tough.

I think it takes life experience to learn how to do this well and over time, we can condition ourselves to think of the positive, indeed nesessary aspects of experiencing hardship.

Without the downs we can't know the ups and, importantly, we often have no idea how others think we handle difficulty.

I've had times where I'd thought I'd fallen apart over certain hardships only to later learn that outwardly, I had apparently demonstrated strenght and grace from the perspective of others.

Time is an excellent teacher.