Sometimes, the workaholic may have unwittingly created the problems to provide the endless thrill of more work. This one rather sounds like a pathology. Many i

Sometimes, the workaholic may have unwittingly created the problems to provide the endless thrill of more work. This one rather sounds like a pathology. Many if not all great things were created by workaholics. Psychologically, every workaholic has reasons for being it that are very personal, oftentimes latent, and from what I can tell unrelated to the actual performance. So, workaholism is a necessary but not sufficient condition for being able of creating great things, but otherwise it means nothing.