There’s a studied effect on pro athletes where getting paid to play makes them lose their love of the game, and I think it’s something like that. Anecdotally I used to love acting but I didn’t even last a year in the theatre industry before I burned out and haven’t acted in a single thing since.
I assume it’s less about being paid and more about it breaking their body as they inject a designer cocktail of drugs daily while they play or train for the same game all day every day.
There’s a studied effect on pro athletes where getting paid to play makes them lose their love of the game, and I think it’s something like that. Anecdotally I used to love acting but I didn’t even last a year in the theatre industry before I burned out and haven’t acted in a single thing since.
I assume it’s less about being paid and more about it breaking their body as they inject a designer cocktail of drugs daily while they play or train for the same game all day every day.