I've learned that when I "listen" to what my machine is telling me, we are the best team in the world! She tells me when I'm about to, or have already, screwed up. If I ignore her, she'll make me pay. And pay. So I guess I've learned she is the Alpha and I'm her servant.
And I've learned to challenge myself to sometimes make something I'm not wild about but someone else might really like, and to do an even better job on it than I might with something I'm very excited about.