And, knowing who you are inside — independent of the pressures to adapt to a "self" that may bring external reward but also feels alien and inauthentic.

Either way, for independent thinkers, the journey itself is the primary reward and no external factor can take away the pure joy they derive from following their own path.

The traditional and representative industrial cluster theories include Marshall's External Economy Theory, Krugman's Scale Reward Theory, and Porter's Diamond Model Theory, etc.