The reward for enduring pain is happiness and the price of happiness is pain. Reason is very small part of the universe. I've found it more effective to make small steady gains than giant leaps that are unstable. A big vision and great ideals require a lot of patience. This is a world of people.
History is the record of individual accomplishment.
If you want to participate in it, choose your battles and battlefields carefully, we can only take so many wounds. Create a community or find one. This is really hard, it's what I'm doing now.