You can try being indispensable by saying yes to everything, or be trusted because you say no. Over years, only one lasts. Choose the one that returns you.

The thought behind it

This one steps back until the current month becomes a rounding error, and looks at the decade instead. Quiet Power is unglamorous by design: the version of you it builds is the only receipt you get. Everything hinges on “22”, which is the part a politer version of this sentence would have left out.