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Protean_Protein t1_iwn3sxy wrote

Reply to comment by FiestaBeans in New psychology research rebuts Sigmund Freud's "wrecked by success" hypothesis: People with exceptionally successful careers tend to be healthier than their less successful peers by HeinieKaboobler

Wrecked by excellence.

Or as Michael Hutchence of INXS once put it: “elegantly wasted”.

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FiestaBeans t1_iwn6lnm wrote

Who am I to argue with Michael Hutchence, but I think the fame and achievement of that is more what Freud would have identified as the success of concern in his case. Not just being extremely talented.

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