This 100% ideal is crap. You'll die alone and of heart disease by 50 if you do that. A somewhat balanced life, heavily tilted towards your endeavor, is a much

This 100% ideal is crap. You'll die alone and of heart disease by 50 if you do that. A somewhat balanced life, heavily tilted towards your endeavor, is a much more likely to pan out over the course of time. You don't hear about those stories as much, as they're not really noteworthy, but are a much more reasonable and common way companies are built. I'm not saying you live a 9-5 existence with full certainty, but "sacrifice everything" is just stupid as a life plan.