The fear of being hammered is real.

You don't really get the opportunity to grow into an exceptional being, while in society.
You have to jump from normal to exceptional in one go.
Often like becoming a butterfly. A metamorphosis.

However, you will lose a great many "friends", but they were never really friends.

Like, becoming rich.
You have to leave all your poor thinking friends.
And your poor thinking friends will keep you from ever becoming wealthy. (in a million ways, in a million sayings. (Like YOLO, why are you saving for? Come on, come party with us tonight.)

And when you become rich, you find you can't even talk to these poor minded people. Your reality and theirs are too different.