You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.