Is there such a thing as trying too hard?

Title basically, trying too hard to get results

What I mean is that in every are of life where I try really hard aka academics, finances, sports and working out I get disappointing results where as in areas I don't even care about right now so everything social I have success, dudes approaching me and befriending me for exemple, or girls being into me and flirting with me and stuff but man idc about that right now I just want to get big make money compete in sports and ace my studies

The thing that made me think about it is that in school there was some guy I hated and the hate was reciprocated, so we would always try to one up each other and stuff to be better than the other and mog him, do I'd compare myself to him and I realised something interesting:

All I did was study, I didn't even bother joining the class group chat even tho I was invited, I was the only one in the class not in it, I always sat alone, when the class would play games or organise something I never took part in it and just studied. And at home too I studied a lot

Meanwhile the other guy didn't give a fuck about studies, he was either talking to people, doing some dumb shit or sleeping in class, all he did was talk to others socialise and all that, and outside of class he never studied, dude had like 5+ hours of gaming a day on his PS5 and cheated through most of his exams

And guess what? He had better graded than me and passed got a better school than me, while I had more friends and girls into me than he did. Now the difference wasn't by much, like we were both in the top 10 of the class concerning grades and we were both the two most hated people of the class, but it got me thinking about if there is such thing as trying to hard? Because we both had disappointing results in the area we cared most about

Thanks for reading