From the sets of people chirping about creation, freedom, resistance and awareness here: the probability of finding people who will truly act on their word in this set is the same as in any other random group of the population
Yes but it is equally important to develop self-awareness to realize when consistently being the outsider starts rotting some part of your perception.
Accepting rejection as a baseline is not a simple "mental trick".
No. People vastly overestimate how much we detached from our natural identity. It’s just that our narrative-creation capacity combined with improved technology create an attractive illusion. Homeostasis, at the individual as well as societal level, is undefeated.
Their emotional well-being is actually not your responsibility at this point anymore.
Having difficulty accepting this fact is what makes it hard.
The process of independence is actually harder on the parents than on the children.