The effort actually needed to achieve success is hundreds of times greater than we expect. This is why most people fail. Only those who are brave, curious, and obsessed with the process succeed.
Children are easily affected by propaganda. If it says you need to be a cat, you will try to become a cat. If it says men should serve women and be their slaves, you will try to do that. But it won't work if you are a man. Men do whatever is right, not what others say.