Per ColinsMum's point, I get the sense that intrinsic enjoyment of pursuit X at advanced levels inoculates against overreaching and burnout. When work is play--essentially, pleasure-driven--is over consumption even possible (from the perspective of the over-consumer, not the average observer)? In the short term, probably, but I suspect long-term rationality kicks in with the need for sleep and sustenance at some basic level.




What is to give light must endure burning.