The persepctive you get is that the game you were trying to be at the top of is a game not worth playing, that really it was doing you and the world no good and

The persepctive you get is that the game you were trying to be at the top of is a game not worth playing, that really it was doing you and the world no good and that on your deathbed being able to say: "I was the best at X for a while, knew everything there was to know about it" - doesn't amount to much. Certainly can't argue with that. I'm just trying to provide a useful account of why people who play the game play it with the total commitment that they do.