You can't lose. Go, go, go!
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.