Against Obsession, in Defense of Obsession

"This usually requires an unbalanced life"

The idea that there's more to life than an obsession is a hedge. You're hedging against the risk that you're not pursuing anything valuable and failure.

There are many people whose obsessions are useless at best, pernicious at worse. You don't want to look back on your life and realized that you were one of them.

Yet many people who we admire have a singl…