When someone improves themselves, people often call it being fake or changed for the worse. The speaker argues this is really envy: they see you taking risks they won't take, so they tear you down instead of looking at themselves.
The people who don't know how to say you've grown say you've changed, and they say it like it's a bad thing. The people who hate it, or the people who don't accept the new version of you, they downplay your success for being willing to take a risk that they were unwilling to take. Your success makes them feel bad, whether they say it or not. It does, because humans are comparative creatures. We look at one another. That's what we learn through modeling. We see what someone else does, and if they did something that we aren't willing to do and they have something that we don't have, we start not liking them because what does that mean about me? It's much easier to say, he's changed and he sucks now, rather than saying, I didn't and I suck. Mm, so hard.
