Interesting take. Compulsive perfectionism or meaningful quest? Compulsion seems intrinsically unhealthy; yet meaning is also compelling. Of course something

Interesting take. Compulsive perfectionism or meaningful quest? Compulsion seems intrinsically unhealthy; yet meaning is also compelling. Of course something can both energize and eventually cause burnout. Perhaps moderation by scope and one's ability and agency is an answer? Scope: never being happy with anything seems miserable; but being unhappy with one thing is maybe good. Ability: demanding performance beyond your abilities seems discouraging, but realistic subgoals that you can make progress on is encouraging (of course, for the unknown, we can't know if it's possible or not). Agency: insisting on the actually impossible is frustrating; but again, acting within your agency is self-affirming. i.e. just match difficulty to ability - accounting for the fact that we can know neither. PS "successful" entrepreneurs is a small subset. Those who win a grueling competition are often, though not always, happy about it.