His feeling of oppression from the main family resulted in him adopting a fatalism philosophy - "fate is something decided at birth and no matter what one does, people cannot escape their destiny". Neji attempts to condescend de naruto during their Chuunin exam match saying "that someone who is weak will always remain weak" but this fails and he goes on to be defeated. de naruto then suggests that if a "failure" like himself can change his destiny, a "genius" like Neji can, too.
