I find myself more successful a human in owning my own actions and cleaning my own messes than the outward successes of my past, which were stuck in status-quo capitalist thinking of my life's formative environment in the USA. I've been told otherwise. Am I wrong?

Molly, I haven't fought the battles you've fought, and the fire by which I've been tried hasn't half the heat you've faced. If my career sinks from here, but then I win half the battles you have, I will die a successful man.