one glorious day

One glorious day we’re going to have to decide what we want to achieve with what we achieve. Basically, there are two possibilities.
We can get famous. Lots and lots of people will know our names. Those same people will know a lot of what other people said about us and about our work. They will know the names of the complicated concepts we’re associated with or, if we’re really good, the concepts we invented. Those people will have held and bought our books. They will have read the first couple of pages and then they will have skimmed to the back, read the ending, and polluted society with their shallow ideas about who we are and what we believe. No one will really know that they don’t really know what they are talking about, because all the people that listen to them will have only done the same thing and they all desperately hope that no one ever knows more than them.
We can, however, travel the road less taken and become seriously important. Then only a few people will have heard our names and even less will have come in contact with our ideas. The fewer people know us, the less talk can there be about us. It is generally true that people, no matter how stupid, won’t admit to their stupidity. Especially not towards themselves. So, whenever someone actually does remember our name, let alone philosophy, the majority of his listeners will turn away with their noses turned up and declare our fan an arrogant idiot.
Our fan will have read our ideas, and when I say read I mean read. He will have caught a glimpse of what’s really inside of us, of what’s moving us, and what we consider important. He will have seen, for only a second, who we really are.
Only a few people are ever going to get there. Those few people might or might not be able to pay for our rent or to feed our families. The decision we have to make is whether or not that is important to you. Do you want to get rich? Then you won't have to be really good and what you already know is probably more than most people. Don't go do too deep inside yourself. Keep it simple and don’t try to be edgy. You want people to get you and to pay you. They won’t do that if they think you’re better than them.
Or do you really want to make a difference in this world?