Heart/Soul vs. Working Hard

I argue that the goal of humanity is for each one of us to give the very best that we've got. When we're working on something that we are truly passionate about, nothing else matters. This can be a project, a book we're reading, or a video game. It can be a loved one, a friend, or a comrade. When we truly care about something, all other needs fade. The desire to eat disappears. Sleep becomes burdensome. Taking a break becomes disheartening because we are so enamored on our cause. This can be a beautiful thing. It is also obviously destructive to the human body. Depending on what we are killing ourselves over, society views that differently. If you are a young actor trying to make it big, your enthusiasm toward self-destruction is valued. Every night you spend up late memorizing lines or making contacts in the industry is viewed as a step upward. This is because people want to hire passionate people. Passionate people create a positive externality in their environment. They are giving more of themselves than what they are paid to give. Employers like this. This means $$$. But it is for good reason. Passionate people go on to be the best managers. The ones who take hard shifts but because they love the job and the people they work with. Passionate people go on to have huge influence among all their sphere, so then they become a connection point for higher-ups. Soon, passionate people are so well loved and so well liked and so influential, that they go on to bigger and better things. But they always remember everyone who helped them along the way, and so they give back again and again and again. Their pie has gotten bigger, and so each time they give out a small percentage of their passion and success it returns back to them.

Then people just think working your guts out means you are this type of person. When in fact you are more looking at the "symptoms" of a successful person, and not just the actual being that is a successful person, which is passion.