Anyone who has achieved a high level of success in any extremely difficult, competitive field understands that being “happy” just can not be a primary objective. That there will be possibly long periods of grueling work, stress , lack of sleep etc etc. that there must be an extremely high...
That is the more reasonable approach. Except that I kinda knew there was going to be a drop in performance and thus dominance right about now. I am just not at all surprised.
I think it is very clear that this is true. Extremely high expectations, lack of coddling, hard work and some commensurate pain are not synonymous with abuse. They just are not.