With chefs, it seems like they really are crushing it. I've heard of a couple of top chefs who got burned out, went and started "something else" away from thei

With chefs, it seems like they really are crushing it. I've heard of a couple of top chefs who got burned out, went and started "something else" away from their fame, which then proceeded to crush it as well. Of course, there is a lot of survivorship bias. I never heard of the ones who never crushed it or who started the second thing and it failed. However, the fact that there are a non-trivial number of chefs who crush it multiple times seems to suggest that there is something that they have. Even people like Anthony Bourdain acknowledge that there is a VAST gulf in capability between people like himself and the people who went and survived those big name restaurant kitchens.