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The question is interesting, as is whether you can aply things you've learned while riding to other areas. For sure you can develop mental fortitude and learn to look at problems differently, but doing the same at work could require a similar passion or reason. At the very least you could learn to be more calm when you need to solve problems. And you could take problem solving in itself as the interesting challenge so it wouldn't be just an obstacle but the reason to be there. Some experienced racers still say it's just a different world though.
The survey questions are kind of distracting as at work my job is often to pursue projects objectively and stop or change them if they don't seem to be efficient etc. so I can't stubbornly push them through, while in races and such I've finished even if it means injuring myself to some extent. In SRMR I enjoyed the most physically or mentally challenging stretches the most and I can take some of that with me to the office but in many aspects, it might not be the most productive solution for those problems. Though sure the questions are interesting and you need these qualities to be successful in races and maybe I should have a job where I could stubbornly follow my intuition.