A speaker shares how reframing hardship as a story you'll tell later helped them survive their worst times. They compare real struggles to movie montages: what takes 90 seconds on screen can last five years in life, but the dragon makes the hero.
I'd say one of the strongest mental frames that has gotten me through my hardest times is, this will be the story that I will one day tell. That means the harder it is, the bigger the dragon, the more epic the story, and by consequence, the more epic the hero. And the difficult part of the lonely chapter is the rocky cutscene lasts 90 seconds in the movie and lasts 5 years in reality.
