Mark Danielewski:

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

(as quoted by seemingly tortured animator Phil Tippett in the doc mentioned the other day) Meanwhile stress can be an advantage.

I’ve long been fond of quoting Cake’s The Distance with regard to my career & sometimes quixotic commitment to thankless missions.

The sun has gone down and the moon has come up
And long ago somebody left with the cup
But he’s driving and striving and hugging the turns
And thinking of someone for whom he still burns

He’s going the distance…