The reason some people can't stop working is not ambition. It's that they don't know who they are when they stop. The work is holding the identity together. Rest threatens it.
This is not sustainable and it usually announces itself in a way that's hard to ignore when it does.
You don’t want to be the person that regrets not spending more time in the most important places…home, spouse, father/mother.
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