It isn't drivel. He's saying that if you ignore what your heart and soul crave, you will suffer increasingly until you wake up and make changes. That's a practical truth, one worth repeating because most of us do so assiduous a job of forgetting it.
Realism? He identified a false assumption and corrected it. How much more realistic can you get?
don't change careers, get mental help
What's mental help? Sounds like something we could all use.
Work is what we spend most of our waking hours doing, so work that sucks is life that sucks. That's not "awfulizing" - those consequences really are bad. There may be good reason to accept them for a while, but that path is fraught with risk, because (we've all seen examples of this) "a while" can so easily turn into decades, into a lifetime. When someone breaks out of that trance, we should all applaud.
Realism? He identified a false assumption and corrected it. How much more realistic can you get?
don't change careers, get mental help
What's mental help? Sounds like something we could all use.
Work is what we spend most of our waking hours doing, so work that sucks is life that sucks. That's not "awfulizing" - those consequences really are bad. There may be good reason to accept them for a while, but that path is fraught with risk, because (we've all seen examples of this) "a while" can so easily turn into decades, into a lifetime. When someone breaks out of that trance, we should all applaud.