The academic life is also full of failure and rejections, but thanks to government funding not as extreme as the artist, musician, pr writer life. Some of the

The academic life is also full of failure and rejections, but thanks to government funding not as extreme as the artist, musician, pr writer life. Some of the ones who stick through all the failure make it. Although that path long and uncertain. It’s also why sometimes people who excel academically before phd can get shocked when they encounter a life full of failure and rejections once they enter phd.