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Matteo Vignoli

Why you should use your off hours to do the same things you do in your job? I get it, you're passionate and so on, but that doesn't mean you need to dedicate all your life to that passion - that's called obsession, actually, and it's not a good thing (even if everyone is telling you otherwise)

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Jesse Phillips

You don't have the right to dictate what I or anyone else does on their free time. And while being obsessed may not be a good thing for you, without looking at someones specific situations, it would be impossible to conclude that it is in fact a problem.

Someone mentioned 14 year olds. This is a great time to have an obsession and fixated. The problem comes in from those without the obsession trying to "keep up" and that is exactly the point. The barrier of entry is low that the competition is saturated with passionate, obsessed people.