Data is not useful until it becomes information.
Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.
Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.
The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.
Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.