Re:Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Sc...
by DoreenMichele on Monday November 11, 2019 @07:20PM
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I gladly encouraged him to work when he wanted, sometimes that meant he'd work 48 hours straight and sleep for two days and show up Friday.
It's extremely common for brilliant people to be twice exceptional. Problems like ADHD, ASD, OCD, etc. are fairly strongly associated with very high IQs.
This means if they pull an all-nighter, it's not because they pushed themselves to be productive. It's because their brain was on fire with an idea and they needed to get it all out right now and literally were incapable of sleeping until they could get it done.
That can't be replicated from the other direction. You can't say "I know! I will stay up and work all night and it will be brilliant!" That's not how that works. Not by a long shot.
It's extremely common for brilliant people to be twice exceptional. Problems like ADHD, ASD, OCD, etc. are fairly strongly associated with very high IQs.
This means if they pull an all-nighter, it's not because they pushed themselves to be productive. It's because their brain was on fire with an idea and they needed to get it all out right now and literally were incapable of sleeping until they could get it done.
That can't be replicated from the other direction. You can't say "I know! I will stay up and work all night and it will be brilliant!" That's not how that works. Not by a long shot.