If you can't stop owing to your work schedule, then you can't stop, regardless of what you see. Also most people wouldn't recognize a top fiddler from a mediocre one.
Not much to do with mindfulness, much more to do with the effect of being in the slave-force. People miss a great deal in their lives owing to the fact they must earn a living working for someone else.
The test was set to show the result they got, imo.