Personality type has a big role to play here. Certain personality types can't become workaholics.

Let them go find their own path, and while they do that, some tolerance for whatever work-in-progress philosophy they might spout, is not a bad thing.

Nobel winner Richard Thaler -

"I would never deny being lazy, but did Danny(Daniel Kahneman) thinks that my laziness was my single best quality? To this day, Danny insists it is. My laziness, he claims, means I only work on questions that are intriguing enough to overcome this default tendency of avoiding work.'

"thriving and survival in an unstable future" doesn't mean following just one route. Nature shows us there are a whole bunch of routes. From the cactii to the banyan tree you can find value in all of them or what best suits you.