It's all quite true. It's also, at times, a grindingly soul-crushing attitude that'll suck the joy out of your life and the excitement out of your soul. Every

It's all quite true. It's also, at times, a grindingly soul-crushing attitude that'll suck the joy out of your life and the excitement out of your soul. Every training cycle, every sleep/wake learning cycle, every moment where you could be amassing power for future endeavors, they are all viciously, cruelly, incessantly marching on, demanding you take advantage of them or suffer the consequences of weakness: not getting the promotion, being the one who is laid off, not landing the deal- it's all encapsulated in this attitude. And it is awful. But I don't believe it has to be. You can balance your life around gaining whatever kinds of strength you need, while also accepting the need not only for the rest and recovery required to cement your gains of physical strength or mental skill, but because you need to replenish your - well, whatever it is that makes you decide that staying alive is worth the trouble. And if there's only fear of lost achievement there, well, I feel like I've experienced that for part of my life, and it's fairly miserable and relatively ineffective at causing a person to, as the author admonishes, actually put things into effect. I'm going to go get some balance right now, I've been itching to play Overwatch all week, I am going to go and do it! :D