Toward the end of my drinking it would occur to me that my professional life managed to move forward precisely because it was the one area in my life where I never got drunk. Even with an occasional hangover I was able to grow, able to see my mistakes and learn from them, able to gauge my own limits and to hone my understanding of where further work needed to be done. My vision didn’t get muddied in the office in quite the same way it did in my personal life,
