"...should always be productive, dynamic, upbeat, and brilliant."

"A friend of mine had reached the top of his profession, but an addiction to prescription drugs forced him to resign his position and enter a period of rehabilitation for substance abuse. He had become addicted in part because of the expectation that he should always be productive, dynamic, upbeat, and brilliant. But he refused to blame other people's demands for his collapse. 'My life was built on two premises,' he said. 'The first was that I could control your opinion and approval of me through my performance. The second was—that was all that mattered in life."

- Timothy Keller, from "Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope That Matters"