I don't know the solution to this - discovery/exploitation is a hard balance to get right. For what it's worth, I find that if I focus on either making things

I don't know the solution to this - discovery/exploitation is a hard balance to get right. For what it's worth, I find that if I focus on either making things or doing things with others, I'm happier than when I just consume. But I'm not a life coach - just a guy who spent waaaaayy too much time in my 20's playing videogames, staying in a college program I hated and should've dropped out of, and doing rather little to change it, until somehow the fact that I am, indeed, going to die one day and it's sooner than I think and there's stuff I want to do before then, really clicked in my head (and never went away).