Living and working in New York City is competition enough without fighting through the same overachieving, overaerobicized crowds at the starting line.

He says that "...compulsive overachieving can stimulate production of dopamine"; however these "...temporary "lifts" will pass, triggering a spiraling non-fulfilling cycle of achievement and disappointment."

With his imposing, hearty manner, Masur seems in vibrant good health, though he had an angina scare last year, diagnosed as brought on by stress from all his political and musical overachieving.

Finally, the average household income of Blackberry owners was nearly 50 percent higher than the national average, at about $94,000, indicating that those who own Blackberry-like devices may share some more overachieving (or is that overworking?)

The huge, mansard-roofed Johnson and Burgee buildings, first announced in 1983 but thankfully not yet built, represent architectural overachieving at its worst, and as time has gone on they have looked less and less attractive and have seemed less and less necessary.)