Yes. I have always tended to choose the path not only less trodden, but also the most challenging [read: 'difficult']. So if I show great promise at art and music, what sort of careers do I consider? Naturally, medicine (couldn't do it; flunked the maths) and law (did it very well, for a short time, but melted down so bad I almost killed myself with self-medication). There have been many other examples in my life of swimming upstream. It's motivated by a kind of bloodymindedness, a 'yes I can take on city hall' attitude, and there has been a certain fierce pleasure and pride in taking a lonely stance and beating the odds when (rarely) it happens.
So, because of the satisfactions, it has taken a hell of a long time to realise this one, fatal flaw. It has functioned as a flaw because it has caused me to overtax myself and deny my 'bliss'. But it has nonetheless been a source of lasting confidence to discover I can take on the impossible and succeed. I no longer have to prove a thing to myself or anyone else, and I'm glad to say I have many years left within which to enjoy this radical, necessary and wholesome perspective shift. My priorities are different now: career is still important but I have chosen a less-consuming tangent, and music no longer takes a back seat; I fear it's too late now for art ... but you never know. As for the challenges, I suspect I'm still quite likely to take on something else impossible before long, because of being built that way; but it will never again be my prime driver. First, peace. Then the world.