What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?
Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.
The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.
Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.