Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken.

Good advice!  It was hard to apply before my hair turned grey, before raising a family and the shocks of running a small business.   "Everyone else is already taken" is inescapably obvious and true.

"When you're young, you think everyone is thinking about you"
"As you get older, you don't care what they think."
"Older still, you realize they weren't thinking about you in the first place".