The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.
If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference.
Nothing about becoming indispensable is easy. If it's easy, it's already been done and it's no longer valuable.
Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.
All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.
It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.