[mo1ok]

I think it's important to be passionate about your life's work. However, maintaining "good enough" across all dimensions of particular lifestyle or role is actually incredibly challenging.

Even for a standard engineer, think how many you know can code well, be leaders, AND can write good documentation.

For most things, it's always a "pick 2 out of 3" situation.

[olau]

There's a difference between being passionate about your own work, and being passionate about being better than everyone else.

I fact, I don't think the two have anything in common?

[SomeGuy789]

It seems to me like there's two different things being discussed in this thread. The first one being passion about being better than everyone else as you mentioned and the second one is a desire to work on yourself on different aspects of life, a.k.a. try to be as well-rounded person as possible. When put in action these things are deceptively similar yet the underlying reasons for doing them are very different.