Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore
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#2While not every crazy person I know is a genius, every genius that I know is crazy.
Pretty sure people that know me would place me in at least one of those categories as well.
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#3LOL, oh, HN commenters, please never change.
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#4While not every crazy person I know is a genius, every genius that I know is crazy. Pretty sure people that know me would place me in at least one of those categories as well.
What's the point of this comment without explaining why? If you're going to pat yourself on the back, don't only do it once, spill the beans! There's nothing wrong with your implication, just be able to back it up because it's a fairly large one.
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#5I'm surprised Hemmingway was used as an example in this piece. He did believe he was being monitored or 'stalked' by the FBI. His wife/family did have him subjected to electro-shock therapy. Wasn't it later proven that Hemmingway was followed and 'harrassed' by the FBI?
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#6Well, they do say that the only way to distinguish genius from madness is by observing the results.
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#7I'm surprised Hemmingway was used as an example in this piece. He did believe he was being monitored or 'stalked' by the FBI. His wife/family did have him subjected to electro-shock therapy. Wasn't it later proven that Hemmingway was followed and 'harrassed' by the FBI?
Life is so complicated, and sometimes the line is even more blurry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/hospital-guns-mental-h...
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#8It is sad that the state of statistical knowledge is so low that the third and forth paragraphs are necessary.
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#9This seems quite all over the place and I'm not sure what the point was. Was it that sometimes mental illness and creativity are coincident? Everything else seemed like a bunch of worldbuilding.
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#10I believe I'm crazy but far from a genius...