Steve Jobs (just off the top of my head) completely abandoned his family and built one of the greatest company of all times.
Which he later came to regret, most profoundly:
Years later, after Jobs left Apple, he acknowledged Lisa and attempted to reconcile with her. Chrisann Brennan wrote that "he apologized many times over for his behavior" to her and Lisa and "said that he never took responsibility when he should have, and that he was sorry."[2]†
In general, you may want to re-visit the implicit principle on which you're operating: namely "Someone incredibly famous and widely admired for their achievements did highly contemptible thing X, that was plainly and unnecessarily hurtful to other people; therefore, it's OK if I do it."
As if it was ever necessary for Jobs to have turned his boak on his family in the flagrantly callous manner that he did in order for us to have the shiny gizmos that we hold in our hands today, in the first place. If anything, all it amounted to was a distraction and impediment towards those ends.
I am not operating on that principle, actually. And I don't recommend anyone to follow it. I am not sure why you have come to this conclusion. My point was that saying that "all the successful people got successful because their personal things mattered for them more that their business" doesn't seem to be correct, and I gave the example with Steve Jobs. I don't really admire him, I never met him, and had no idea what kind of a person he was. I honestly just don't care because it doesn't matter. The key point I was trying to explain to you guys is that people are different, some of them think and behave differently, some of them may have different values and priorities. But we all live our own lives and make our own choices clearly understanding what we do. So, you just can expect from people around to live different lives with different view and goals (regarding all the things - business, families, food, hobbies, education, etc.). And that's okay.
Which he later came to regret, most profoundly:
Years later, after Jobs left Apple, he acknowledged Lisa and attempted to reconcile with her. Chrisann Brennan wrote that "he apologized many times over for his behavior" to her and Lisa and "said that he never took responsibility when he should have, and that he was sorry."[2]†
In general, you may want to re-visit the implicit principle on which you're operating: namely "Someone incredibly famous and widely admired for their achievements did highly contemptible thing X, that was plainly and unnecessarily hurtful to other people; therefore, it's OK if I do it."
As if it was ever necessary for Jobs to have turned his boak on his family in the flagrantly callous manner that he did in order for us to have the shiny gizmos that we hold in our hands today, in the first place. If anything, all it amounted to was a distraction and impediment towards those ends.
† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Brennan-Jobs