charisma will take you surprisingly (shockingly) far. be charismatic
treat life like open world gameplay, you can do more than you think. (I wandered in to a professors office at an ivy league to ask for directions, now I lead seminars for some of his classes. not a student at the university.)
Go to libraries and read books, why not,
shake up your routines
Let optimism and positivity guide your life not fear.
You gotta pay to play in this world.
Everything has a compromise.