The Obsession For Greatness - Whiplash Movie Discussion

What is the cost of being good to being great? Does trauma have an internal part to play when it comes to pushing yourself past your limits?  Also, what happens when you finally succeed in achieving the level of greatness you desired?  Is it by your own doing or are there forces outside of you that create the perfect circumstance that inevitability makes you lose control of yourself?  All this will be discussed in our movie review of Whiplash starring Miles Teller & J.K.Simmons