Serious Philosophers and Research Mathematicians must be living shitty lives

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I'm talking about the ones actually passionate and serious about their work.

Imagine being Andrew Wiles or some mathematician trying to answer some unanswered math problem. It'll be on their minds all the time even when they're not working on the clock. Like even at a party or at a wedding etc, they'll be trying to do computations or trying to find some other routes of answering the problem in their head. They're never free. They're enslaved to their passion. The same applies to philosophy ofc with regard to abstract questions about existence, metaphysics or whatever that's called.

This isn't applicable to unpassionate people in these fields because they just don't care about whether these questions or answered or not if it isn't directly related to their paycheck.
 
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Maybe it depends on how much control of your mind you actually have. If you're able to tell yourself to stop and adjust your focus, re-wire your brain then you won't have these pitfalls associated with passion in extremely abstract fields.
 

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