Anyone can be awesome if they follow the Formula to Success, which involves hard work, grit, and more hard work.
Nope. You are wrong. I can personally assure you that though I am awesome, when I followed the Formula to Success - put in hard work, grits and still more hard work - I ended up with a gross and disgusting mess that everyone refused to eat. So, the formula is wrong!
The formula is not wrong.
In fact, the formula, by definition, cannot be wrong. It's self-referential and self-proving.
You simply did not have/use enough grit.
The solution is to be gritter.
Become the grit.