If you're doing what you love, even if you don't make lots of money, you are
succeeding. Any doubter who tells you otherwise is a blank food tube, a
philistine who exists only to be marketed to (or to do the marketing). Anyone
who tells you you're failing will subsist on a diet of fried cheese and reality TV
until they die of clogged arteries and a clogged soul. You are not even the same
species as these doubters, so you should feel free to ignore them.