Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.
One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.
At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.