What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.
A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement
It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.
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.
Listen to your fear but don't obey it.
You can't shrink your way to greatness!