The situations that won't stop bothering you are worth paying closer attention to.

In my experience working with artists, the ones who grew most significantly weren't always the ones who had the smoothest path. They were often the ones who stopped treating persistent discomfort as something to push through and started asking what it was actually pointing at.

A working environment that consistently drains you. Feedback that stings in a way that doesn't feel entirely wrong. A direction that keeps producing resistance no matter how much effort goes into it. These aren't random. They tend to be asking something of you that you haven't yet been willing to look at directly.

The discomfort that keeps returning is almost always more useful than the discomfort that passes quickly. It's persistent because it has something to say. The artists who learn to read those signals accurately, rather than just managing around them, tend to make better decisions about where their careers actually belong.