Up the intensity

You are a product of exploring every opportunity times your ability times the current state of the market. You can crank up your clock speed to the point where you are exploiting "life" and not exploring "opportunities". Some of the worst people I have worked with have no discernible clock speed or seriousness to the opportunity cost in which you or I could be working elsewhere. You can get a sense of seriousness if you're thinking about where else you can find a flow state in, instead of not working at all. Working somewhere for the status often times backfires because serious people will backchannel, far worse for you than fully pushing your weight elsewhere.