Learn to be OK being misunderstood. If everything you're working on or doing is easily understood by most people, it's probably not very valuable.
Related: if you can't find anyone to fund you to work on what you think are the most important projects, just take the work that people will pay you to do but that allows you enough free time to work on the stuff you think is the most important.
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Learn to be OK being misunderstood. If everything you're working on or doing is easily understood by most people, it's probably not very valuable.
Related: if you can't find anyone to fund you to work on what you think are the most important projects, just take the work that people will pay you to do but that allows you enough free time to work on the stuff you think is the most important.