Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore

Re:Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore by rhizome on Saturday March 11, 2017 @10:35PM (#13848783)

This 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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Re:Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore by dkarapetyan on Saturday March 11, 2017 @11:30PM (#13848971)

Creativity is highly correlated with mental illness because the kind of brain wiring required for creativity is a bit unstable. The article points to one such instability. Creative people are worse at filtering out "unnecessary" information.

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Re:Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore by fritzw on Saturday March 11, 2017 @10:48PM (#13848826)

Over all the uniting factor seems to be having an outsiders view of the world. Creativity, or mental illness will both give you a unique view of the world. Otherwise, the writing composition is beyond me

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Re:Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore by sunilkumarc on Sunday March 12, 2017 @12:41AM (#13849246)

Your last sentence made me upvote your comment :)

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