Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.
Don't 'take care', take a risk!
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The real risk is doing nothing.
Face up to those areas that are weak in your life and seek to make them strong.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.