This describes me (though I’m still working on shattering the world), my characters, my favorite artists and writers, and many of my creative contemporaries. Being ‘normal’ is the most unnatural and incomprehensible thing for us!
This describes me (though I’m still working on shattering the world), my characters, my favorite artists and writers, and many of my creative contemporaries. Being ‘normal’ is the most unnatural and incomprehensible thing for us!
And that is why LSD is so prevalent in Silicon Valley.
It keeps the genius coming out…but in a totally abnormal way.
In my option normal minds do not have creative greatness, The normal hit a stopping block, where as the “crazy” ones blow by that block and excel way beyond the normal realm to achieve creative excellence.
Well put! Crazy people are less likely to be limited by the rules and reason.
for those (like me as well) how see the connection between creativity and madness as fundamental
That’s my theory too.
Wow. Me, too! Maybe that’s why I everything I write turns into a dark comedy. I’m working on a book about a Mormon missionary who succumbs to schizophrenia on his mission
Now that sounds like a fun read.