You cannot become an academic (or an artist of any kind) if you cannot stand other people pointing their fingers at you and calling you a failure. You are not, in fact, a failure (as long as you are alive), but in some people's eyes, you have unquestionably failed at life, and you should be okay with that. You should even be able to befriend those kinds of people. If you are not okay with people calling you a failure, and if you are unable to befriend even the people who really believe that you have failed at life, then maybe you should start looking for a different path.
No, do not start looking for another path. If you have fallen into this path, it is your path. And it is, as the old saying goes, what you make of it.
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