Many people's frame of reference, entire environment is the social structure around them rather than the actual physical properties of the world that God gave them. They will quickly give up in the face of any social signal. But if you act like this, you'll never be great
One of the things I've observed time and time again, which makes me incredibly angry, is this SLAVE mentality reasoning: "If >big highly funded group< cant do it, what makes you think you can?"
I can. I will simply do it. Yes, I know better than them. Why do you give up?