Asked my manager point blank what would get me promoted and the answer wasn't the thing I'd been optimizing for

I'd spent a year shipping fast and volunteering for anything visible, assumed that was the formula. Asked directly in a 1:1 what she'd actually need to see from me to make the case upward. Her answer was almost entirely about how I communicate risk on things that are going wrong, not about the shipping. Felt like I'd been training for the wrong sport for twelve months.