A link betweent genius and insanity?

Is there truly a link between genius and insanity?

 

I think it is easy to look outside rather than in.

 

As I grew up I was a bit different than the neighbor kids sure like the others I could and would play right tackle any day, yet at the same time I would be just as happy with a pen and paper, nothing important just doodles and notes things I seen. I remember when I was young being teased for carrying a pen. This changed me inside I started to hide.

 

The appearance of genius and insanity being linked is just that a perception. The fact that one has higher than normal intelligence, is also a perception. Albert Einstein loved to glamorize that fact, to the point where it has now become “in” or “cool” to make that as a statement. If you look outwardly at the man you see the messed-up hair, the un-kept look that was part of glamorizing, How many images are there of him that you remember while was writing on a calk board? Yet quickly does the image of the eyes crossed, tongue out, close-up come to mind.

 

Of himself I don’t think we would as easily agree to being different.

 

Modern culture is about a stylized approach to defining itself, we use and are a part of this everyday, we idolize the artist, the genius, and we expect them to be extravagant, down to their clothing. ( thank you again Albert.) Hugh Heffner comes to mind, we believe that those who say or think out side the confines of our culture boundaries, must live differently to the point that if an artist can pull it off there are millions to be made.

 

As for the idea that society or a sub-society being filled with genus I think we are about to find out. Look our level of education world wide is growing as fast as the internet. More and more people from every society are asking more questions, and more and more are logging online.

 

What was available to read and understand in my life time has changed. With the power of the internet, which is not its access, is that it is self correcting. My son who is three has a billion times a billion times more information than that was available to me even while I was in college.

 

The law of attraction immediately applies.

 

As for a few other human laws, for every genus that becomes famous there are a hundred who were not. This is a law of our society, yet there is no secret of success.

 

Genus like intelligence and wisdom can be achieved. All it takes is a belief, (a dream if you will.)  desire, and a willingness to make both failures and successes.

 

However being a recluse is a behavior of self preservation rather than being ridiculed.

I still hide.