“To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Individuals like myself are often called 'workaholics.'”

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, book Wings of Fire

I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration.

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