How can you grow the necessary balls to improve your life? No one in my family is brave, and I haven't met a single brave person. I've shot myself in the foot to many times.
I know many of you are like this as well. How can I change?
Do it for God. In case you are a fedora you can get rid of the slave morality and by self-overcoming transcend into Uebermensch.
If you want to become great you need to start by disdaining what is weak and pathetic; like for example most of /r9k/ or the majority of modern society in general. Otherwise it will try to drag you down to mediocrity.