Obsessive personality

[Niwa]

When growing up I've always been great at what I've done sport and gamewise and I've continue with the philosophy that as long as I'm going to do it I might aswell put everything I got into it and become great at it. I played soccer and I was great but then the other players became bigger and stronger and I remained quick and small. The game became harder but I continued to struggle and I was always one of the best but in my puberty I got sick and couldnt continue to play so I found other things to do.

I started to play computergames and the only games I seemed to enjoy was the games including skillbased multiplay. I played whole days and dreamt dreams about the game during the night.

One day I was invited to play poker by one of my friends and I had never played the game so he went over the rules and we started playing. After a while I understood that this wasn't a luckbased game at all so I started studying and playing ALOT. Not a day goes by without me thinking about poker, it's not that I can't stand being away from the tables, its the fact that you can get better and better and still be a mediocre player in the eyes of a great player. I've made alot of money playing poker and I currently make a living playing but I can't say that's the only reason I'm playing it. As a competitive and obsessive person I really want to become great and I always have goals that I need to reach not to prove myself to others but to me. I don't care if my friends thinks I'm great or anyone else until I have fixed my flaws and look back at hand histories where I would have done the same thing afterwards as I did when playing the hand.
I've quit playing computergames and focusing on poker and I love it. For a person with an obsessive and competitive personality this is something to stick their teeth in.

I don't really have a point with this post but I have thought about this ever since I read 1800GAMBLER's post where he stated he ALSO had an obsessive personality. I've also found that many of the top-gamers in the world has also become good pokerplayers and that's where I started to wonder, how many in here have obsessive personalities?

Does it take a competitive and obsessive personality to become a great player?