Thanks for your response, Nick! That really is the ‘million dollar question’, isn’t it? Many of us, myself included, struggle at times to find the right balance between, on the one hand, working too hard, isolating ourselves, and ignoring the importance and value of human interaction and, on the other, throwing discipline ‘out the window’, over-indulging in fun, and neglecting our responsibilities. Learning how to achieve (and maintain) such an equilibrium goes beyond the scope of this article. Fortunately, many people have written about this topic here on Medium. A good place to start would be Medium’s personal development, productivity, psychology, and self-improvement subsections. Cheers :)