Real life examples

Elon Musk : Musk was picked on for being "the youngest and smallest guy in his school," his mother told Esquire. Musk's brother added that "Kids gave Elon a very hard time."

Michael Phelps : Phelps even got suspended from school for fighting one of his bullies. After that, he learned to keep his composure and challenge his frustration into success in the swimming pool. "I kind of laugh at it now," Phelps told Yahoo. "I think it made me stronger going through that.

Eminem : As a child who moved from school to school, Eminem was frequently bullied for being an outsider. "I was beat up in the bathrooms, in the hallways, shoved in the lockers — for the most part for being the new kid," Eminem told CNN's Anderson Cooper in 2010.

Justin Timberlake : "Growing up in school, no one ever called me anything close to an innovator," Timberlake said at the iHeartRadio awards. "They called me different, they called me weird, they called me a couple of other words I can’t say on TV. "Thankfully, my mother taught me that being different was a good thing, that being different meant you could actually make a difference."