Don't ever let comments from the 'peanut gallery' deter you from achieving your own personal success. Bear in mind, the vast majority of people follow the crowd and accordingly never achieve greatness. If you want to excel and rise above mediocrity you have to change your level of consciousness. You must rise above the crowd and follow your own path. Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
If the possibility of the spiritual development of all individuals is to be secured, a second kind of outward freedom is necessary. The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit in general requires still another kind of freedom, which may be characterised as inward freedom. It is this freedom of the spirit which consists in the interdependence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudices as well as from unphilosophical routinizing and habit in general. It is the source of all true art and science. Quoted on pg.