Culd, where did all this energy go before Clash? You might be one of those guys that gets "into" everything you do this much, but, really wondering here.
I almost feel like I don't expend this much effort on my career and it guilts me a lil.
It's a lot less effort than you would imagine. I have a job where there is a crap ton of downtime. Lots of meetings where I'm on the phone and have to put about 25% of my attention in them, but can't really do anything productive.
I used to gamble on sports, alot. I would develop power rankings for myself, set my own lines, look for edges. I did well. Then got tired of dealing with all the restrictions.
Before that was into poker, then they shut that down. Would do like 8 sit and go at once. Then they shut that down.
Before that was into Civ4. I'd have like 4 games going at once. I'd screengrab bases and plot the next 5 turns while at work, then go home. I'd also shareplay with other people.
etc.
I can get a ton of crap done in parallel. I get bored if I focus on just one thing at a time. I could probably apply this to something productive or more money focused, like stocks, but I don't. I just invest in index funds.