Dwayne Johnson, who fascinates me with the weird position in the culture he's taken, recently gave a talk in which he said, "at some point you’ve got to be fucking tired of not being number one." Which is fair, and motivational. But, at some point, you've got to decide what you'd have to give up to be number one and whether it's worth it.
Wow. Can't really put my finger on why, but that just slapped me with an open hand right on the meat of my brain.