One associated personality trait I've observed in the obsessive and successful is guilt free myopia. If you either don't notice, or don't care, when people aro

One associated personality trait I've observed in the obsessive and successful is guilt free myopia. If you either don't notice, or don't care, when people around you are negatively impacted by your obsession you can get so much more done. I must emphasize I don't think there's usually any malice involved, just an ability to forget that not eating dinner with your significant other might make them mad, or that being late to something might inconvenience a colleague. There are, of course, serious caveats to this behavior and it can have lasting negative effects, but people who work well even in the face of attempted social interruptions or implied responsibilities strike me as quite free.