There are contributions of consequence that are occurring across the world. I don't think we (the U.S.) are in a position at our current levels of investment in education to control or even have a strong influence on how innovation develops.
And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.
Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.
Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time.
No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality.
Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.
Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.
Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.