Don't glorify struggle.
Don't become what philosopher's ask you to become, don't become Rich, successful, philosopher, artist, or anything because you just want that. Become what you like, but by carrying out what is it that you believe and find yourself to be satisfied with by carrying out duties in those directions and not thinking about results. Plato made some arrangements for rescuing Socrates from prison and requested Socrates to run away from Athens as people of Athens don't deserve his ideas, intellect, and knowledge. Socrates on the other hand decided to not let his ideas die by running, instead chose to let himself accept the death rather than his ideas. People who ostracized Socrates and rejected his ideas are stupid. Well, people who glorify Socrates too are no more than stupid. Socrates choose death, but it doesn't mean you or anyone having intellect like his too shall have to choose death/hate/rejection(from society)just to be recognized as an intellectual or a contributor, ...