Most of the time you hear about the time someone won something, very rarely you will hear about the other times they ended up losing, which usually accounts for more than what they won.
You're right, people will only tells you the most interesting aspects of their stories by taking away the difficulty they experienced althrough the process, but i don't know maybe they usually do that to entice others or to push them into having same experience they've been through, i see it that after having both experience on the good and the bad, it is also expected that we take our personal decision base on the level of research we did, people are loosing in gambling but it will not be noised but when they eventually win luckily, the whole gist got aired.
That's a good point people should keep in mind when judging others and their success in gambling. Just because someone won big today doesn't mean that he is a successful gambler. People tend to overstate their own success and understate their loses. It's normal for humans to brag about their accomplishments, but when this happens to often it might already be a sign of an addiction. Not being honest about how much money we spend in the casino and how much we are losing is not good. Lying to strangers is one thing, but when we keep our losses hidden from friends and family than can lead to big problems. Only sharing our success stories creates more pressure to try and make big profits. I would recommend anybody to try and stay truthful, don't try to project an image of yourself that's not you and that you can't keep up in the long run.