opportunity and difficulty

Recently I've been trying to 'sell' people on a new idea for the town in which I live. It's interesting to discover the people who get it straightaway, those who are mildly interested and those whose first instinct is to oppose. It reminded me that being a person who sees an opportunity in every difficulty is a posture worth nurturing; the opposite, seeing the difficult in every opportunity is the default setting of the culture, requiring no work to acquire...