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I think stress is the clear negative factor.

I can easily work my day job, go to the gym and give it my best, and then come back home and fire up my own project if I’m generally feeling happy.

If I’m stressed it can lead to some other mental health issues and then even my day job is effected.

I think anyone can do this if they were allowed to structure their work the way they want and work on the things they want to. Then we’d all be Carmacks in our chosen field. But we aren’t all so lucky.




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