Resist the temptation to fit in. The illusion of immediate security will cost you in the long term, heftily.
Fight only one front. Make sure you win.
For your own happiness, do not contaminate the purity of your purpose.
Let your mature side take over.
Pay the price for your own incompetence or negligence or ambition or vision or whatever, not others’.
Remember remember, substance over form.
You fight to win, not to avoid losing.