Thinking of some of the greatest recognised people in the world, many of them had some kind of outstanding mental disturbance, for want of a better term. What mad them brilliant instead of just plain crazy?
2007-08-19 23:36:09 · 12 answers · asked by Link 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I believe the logical link between the two may have something to do with an IQ level. I think the smarter a person is, the more they know and realize things going on around them. When a brilliant person tries to explain these realizations to others it comes out sounding like babal. Rational thoughts can sound incoherent when the translation is twisted beyond normal human brain functioning capacity. Thus brilliance is twisted to insanity. Reguarding the Brilliant minds you speak of I think that the majority of them were indeed writers in some way or another, whether it be the mad and sometimes irrational writings of Nostradomus, or the black and devious writings of Edgar Allen Poe, and I believe that to a mad/brilliant person detaching themselves from the sections of humanity that did not understand them and instead translated their work into writing helped them to feel a bit more sane. If you look back at all of the brilliant minds of the human era, you will see that most of them spent their time alone. Ernest Hemingway, for example, brilliant writer, and drunk, divorcee, with at least one known child whom he abandoned. But still we study his writing in most common collegiate paths. In conculsion, I believe that in order to be a sane madman, with brilliant but incoherent work you must first admit your understanding of nothing, while observing the notion that you do comprehend all that surrounds you.
(P.S. If this writing has confused you, then I have proven my point. Madness, and brilliance are alined together, only to show that the smartest minds, are the ones that end up alone for lack of understanding from their peers.)
2007-08-20 00:03:18 · answer #1 · answered by queen462606 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Brilliant...but not crazy...
I've always been "intense," but not "manic..."
I've always been "passionate," but have both feet grounded firmly in "terra firma..."
I play in a deeply disturbing rock band...but have a career with a 401k, pension retirement plan, and full medical...(but I've never made more than 40k a year...and I'm not gonna quit either one...
I have an I.Q. of 154...considered genius by some...(I don't think of myself as the one who's smart...but there are a lot of chowderheads out there, so in comparison, I seem smart)...
What you're not realizing is this...Brilliant people have just the same percentage of "mental illness" as "not-so-brilliant" people...so when mentally-ill "brilliant" people become famous, their "madness" is what people focus on because of their celebrity status...so it only SEEMS that the two things are mutually beneficial...they're linked...but it is not a "causal" or "good" link...
My creative musical genius (tongue-in-cheek, here...just tooting my own horn...confidence, not conceit...) would be "hindered" by "madness"....
NOT enhanced by it...
No brilliant, mad-as-a-hatter artist, or scientist, or political leader has ever "benefitted" from their "madness..."
They would have been even "more" brilliant without it...
So don't believe the myth that insanity and creativity are linked in a good way...it's just coincidence...lots of people are brilliant and NOT troubled or insane...
2007-08-20 01:24:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the perspective that these people are viewed from that makes them seem the way they seem.
A narrow segment of possible human behavior has been deemed acceptable or sane if you will.
Anything outside of this selected margin is viewed by those who believe in it as unacceptable or insane.
The closer someone comes to the boundary, the more likely they are to be labeled.
The truly brilliant notice flaws in this process and often point then out. Those who understand see this as brilliant. Those who don't see it as insanity.
Example: it is a commonly held belief in this country that If we can just kill the right people (Bin Laden and others) we can have a peaceful world. The process for accomplishing this creates untold chaos.
Anyone pointing this out to a believer Is seen as confused or insane by said believer.
Love and blessings Don
2007-08-20 03:08:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a superb line between genius and insanity. permit's learn this to a clock. initiate at 12 o'clock and proceed clockwise. as quickly as you get to 11:fifty 9 (permit's no longer take Am or Pm into attention) this is the factor the place genius is wide-unfold and each little thing makes specific experience. then you definitely attain the 12 o' clock place and are so at a loss for words which you're feeling like a entire dumb-***, so which you pass to twelve:01 and insanity kicks in. you may make this loop around the clock quite a few situations after which comprehend that the further you pass on your quest for expertise---the fewer you comprehend. there are this variety of super style of dimensions. insanity and insanity is once you're no longer able to go counter-clockwise and discover your some time past to a snug attractiveness and comprehend-how.
2016-12-12 07:20:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always seen the link in the way that both types are outside the normal human thought process. I've known a couple of people who were somewhere around the genius level of intellegence. They were just strange. They didn't see the world the same as most people do because they were just working on a different level.
2007-08-20 22:24:46 · answer #5 · answered by Buy Sam a Drink 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Sometimes brilliance by its very nature can lead to madness,or a psychotic disturbance, but i feel madness can never evolve to become brilliance unless you were brilliant in the first place,then you might reverse the roles.
2007-08-20 01:20:12 · answer #6 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell is created in the here and now by out of control individuals including those who are kings, queens, presidents and other world leaders in governments, churches and universities. I have brilliance that enables me to see in the darkness of dispair or the night. How I perceive is who I am. Others may perceive me as insane but I am here for purposes unknown to them. I explore and understand hellish concepts. Call me crazy but it was my choices that brought me to my awareness and they suit my purpose.
2007-08-20 05:18:45 · answer #7 · answered by midnite rainbow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Normal" people tend to use the left side of the brain's whereas intelligent people use the right side of their brain's. Those people who use the right side of their brain think and reason in a manner which is not understood by those who use the left side of their brain. Also those who use the right side of their brains are more likely to suffer mental illness such as depression.
2007-08-20 00:05:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brilliant people always tend to be thinking about something . i. e ; their mind is always dreaming . So naturally , for others , they seem to be mad and sometimes Brilliant people topple over to the mad side.
2007-08-19 23:49:18 · answer #9 · answered by kaushik murali 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because I think that brilliant people tend to be a lot more highly-strung and thus are sensitive to trivial annoyances that normal people tend to ignore. Also, they usually have over-active imaginations so they often tend towards delusional thinking.
2007-08-20 00:41:06 · answer #10 · answered by crypto_the_unknown 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋