"Dedication, sometimes going over the line into fanaticism, is normal for combat veterans in the workplace. It accounts for the success in the world that many do achieve. They typically work much more than forty hours a week. The truism "Money isn't everything" has an unusual application here. I have never known a group of people so little interested in money as the combat veterans I have worked with. If they have worked like madmen, like they are on a "mission," it is not for the money, but for the sake of having a mission that shuts everything else from their minds."
-Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D., Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
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