The ultimate goal is getting paid to be yourself. To solve problems you can't help but solve. To study what you can't pull yourself away from. To eliminate any work that does not challenge you creatively.
This engraving of Christ's face from the veil of Saint Veronica was created with just one line.
Made by the French engraver Claude Mellan in 1649, it begins with a single spiraling line at the tip of Jesus’ nose and never breaks.
Being able to add such detail of shadow and depth to the point of it looking like a photography is next level skill.
400 years later, it still can not be matched.