The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
If you don't go through the tough times, you don't get to the good times.
The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.