If you think differently to people around you, treat their advice with some scepticism. Including the things about work life balance and burn out. Erdos did _g

If you think differently to people around you, treat their advice with some scepticism. Including the things about work life balance and burn out. Erdos did _great_. I had no idea he spent decades working for longer than most people spend awake but I know the name. If he'd listened to the advice he was given, we'd have a lot less mathematics and he'd have been less content. Some other people would have been a little less worried about him. Bad tradeoff.