When you come from an African country, we know that it is a regular mentality to look down on other people, well maybe this does not only happen in African countries but I am only talking from the region where I come from. Mostly, when we choose to go through a different route from the popular belief of others it is almost normal to have people coming to attack us but as the winners that we have chosen to be, we have to look beyond the support that other people want to offer us and get focused on the big goal ahead.
When people think you cannot achieve something, you have to start focusing on those things that will help you achieve those things better. A wise man once said:
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
Negativism is often handled in two ways, some people use negativism as a form of discouragement while other people use it as a means of encouragement to help them achieve better things, the way you handle the situation thrown at you will be a serious determining factor in either you will end up achieving success or not.
It is wrong to take people’s comment about you as the totality of your life, those comments often mean that they believe that you will not be able to get to a certain level but it is left to you to make a decision to achieve what you were taught you will never be able to achieve and that is making the decision to prove those people wrong all the time.
The category of people who often discourage you are the people who do not have success amongst their list of accomplishment, when someone does not desire success and they hear about your own intentions about success they often think it is highly impossible to achieve hence the need to discourage you from achieving it. You cannot have successful people around you and get discouraged about success, you only get discouraged by the people who find success almost unachievable.
The series of opposition received by successful people has been one of the reasons why they pushed even farther and they were able to achieve what they wanted to achieve. If you are truly determined about success like you often mention, then you need to make use of the discouragement from others to your own advantage and stop getting discouraged about everything that happens.