You can't fly the plane in panic mode. How to relate this to real estate? How many transactions an agent does IS important. Each time a buyer or seller purchases and goes to closing... is like taking a college course for the agent. Each transaction is a chance to learn. The more you list the more you sell the more proficient you become. So just like flying... the more landings and takeoffs that you do...the better pilot one becomes. You don't learn much from a perfectly smooth landing or from a perfectly smooth cash settlement.
Each bump or bit of turbulence...gives the opportunity to solve another challenge.