Be the hero the world needs, not the hero the world wants, asks for, appreciates, understands, or recognizes as anything resembling a hero.
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How do you know if you have succeeded if you ignore popular opinion? For every Galois or Reimann there are thousands of people with ideas no one did or should appreciate.
There are also countless people whose wretched lives can't even serve as counterexamples to others because the circumstances surrounding them were too bizarre and uncommon to ever make any lessons even hypothetically learned from them repeatable.