Totally agree with this. It wasn’t a criticism. I would also say most really driven people from CEO’s to endurance athletes and mountaineers can be pretty difficult people to live with and don’t always come across well.
I don’t know how old the ad is. Bloke maybe a tool, maybe desperate, maybe keen. I don’t know I’ve never met him. Just giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe a knob. Maybe someone in their late 20’s bored at work and feeling like the chance is slipping away from him. Most people tend to coast through life. Nothing wrong with that if you’re basically content with your lot but if you feel you have the energy to do better it’s a shame not to try.
Edit: I read a fair few music autobiographies and pretty much all of them would have been unbearable bell ends in their youth!