Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.
The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.