Creativity or its implementation is 99% hard work and only 1% actual creativity itself.

I think you are at a point in your life where i already stood sometime to decide which way to take. When i realized that i actually can help people directly instead of only accumulating FED-approved toilet paper by just doing what i already was doing my whole life, my definition of egoism or egocentrism shifted considerably. People following you down this rabbit hole are only people that are willing to achieve something less standard and more individual with their lives. It is a really nice idiosyncratic coincidence that happened to me way too often to be purely random. And it still does.

Because if you get nearer to the real original self that is inside yourself and start to live it out or in your case rather finally start to let it go out, you will always have the respect of other people. And you even can keep the bridges of your castle open while the walls still are too high to climb for all these simple minds. So i don't consider myself purely open, obviously. There i deviate from your point of view. Because understanding the border between my inner and outer self better still is a very fuzzy topic for me.

Not everyone of course, because being everyone's darling isn't a role for humans like us two to achieve. But the good people. (The right people). Funny thing about this fact is, that you can read it in the Stoa from Epictet and from Lao Tse in his description of the Tao. But even that i did way too late in my life, sadly.