"You don’t have to be a prodigy or have it all figured out. You just have to be willing to keep going when it gets hard. Because it will. Don’t be afraid to be lost for a while—sometimes that’s when you stumble into the most interesting things. Forget about looking impressive or proving something. Find what makes you curious, and chase that. And don’t shy away from the hard stuff, the things that make you feel like you’re in way over your head—those are the things that’ll push you further than you think you can go."