If your agenda is set by someone else and it doesn’t lead you where you want to go, why is it your agenda? - Seth Godin

If the only side effect of the criticism is that you will feel bad about the criticism, then you have to compare that bad feeling with the benefits you’ll get from actually doing something worth doing. Being remarkable is exciting, fun, profitable, and great for your career. Feeling bad wears off.

A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck.
So the question is: Have you ever done that?

It's war that makes generals