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Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.

"Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.
Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.