[sosuke]

I read another comment from comet that had a quote on a post that just left the front page about Feynman burning out that I think might answer your question. You can do it all, be successful, happy, driven, and have what others might think are unobtainable ideals all at the same time.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3877084 This reminds me of a Zen Buddhist text that goes like this - “The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in everything he does, leaving others to determine whether he is at work or at play. To him, he is always doing both.”