The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.
It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.
Who gets to decide what you want?