"Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else." (Joseph Campbell)

Well, history does tend to remember the victors, not the ones who proverbially fell off the edge of the world.

In other words, follow your bliss, you'll either succeed or never speak of it again.