Trust your gut. When you’ve finally achieved meaningful success after years of hard work and sacrifice, you’ll look back on a lot of respectable, well-intentioned people who warned you not to rock the boat, or take a risk, or change the part of your life they were comfortable with; and you’ll realize how sad things might be if you’d listened. And you’ll get a little pissed off. And that’s okay. Everyone’s entitled to an opinion, and you’re entitled to ignore it. Go fuck up on your own terms.