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The problem with leading an authentic life where you set your own goals, is that often results in alienation from the masses, who prefer to just abity by the flow of an inauthentic and artificial mainstream culture. This in turn often forces the individual either to compromise too much, in an attempt to reduce his alienation, or to live a hermit-like life of social isolation, both of which are likely to produce strong feeling of dissatisfation and depression in the long run.

Also, not everyone is as lucky as Stallone. Some need to face failure upon failure long before they experience any success with their strategy. How long should one persist until one acknowledges defeat? At what point needs one revisit their strategy and decide to pivot to a different one? In a society where most humans are sheep, are the masses even capable to taking control of their own destiny and leading an authentic life? And, if not, is the combination of a desire to transcend the sheep-like attitude of the masses and years of grinding sufficient to achieve this? Or do eg. luck, generics and/or social networking play a role at least as crucial?

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