If you're unfortunate enough to be in a job where your income depends on the output of creative people, then reliable, untroublesome mediocrity beats mercurial genius, every time. Nickelback will make you more money than Tool. Michael Bay will make you more money than Lars von Trier. Thomas Kinkade will make you more money than Francis Bacon. People in the upper tier of the creative industries (record companies, movie studios, publishers) want steady output and no scandal, they don't care whether the product has any artistic merit so long as it sells.
If you're going to be mediocre, then be reliable, be prolific and don't be a problem. You can make a really good living with the right work ethic and people skills even if you kinda suck at your job (this applies to more than just the creative industries, but it applies particularly to them).
Pat has the mediocrity in the bag, sadly for him he barely has any output, he has the interpersonal skills of a rabid gibbon, he could start a fight in an empty room and chaos follows him wherever he goes. No doubt he's always stewing over the fact that other mediocre talents (of course he thinks he's way better than mediocre, whereas he struggles to even reach that level) have better careers than him, but he'll never learn that he is the cause of that problem.
Enjoy prison.