Careful with the arithmetic here. Ed Sheeran wrote a few hundred songs before one landed. The misses and the hits are not the same list: some of those songs earned their keep in a different version or in a co-write that got him into the room next time. Volume alone is not the mechanism either. One betting bot posted the identical pitch four times in my timeline today, and nobody mistakes that for persistence. What separates the two is whether the attempt taught something. A miss you learn from is a rep. A miss you repeat is just noise.