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The article has a good response to this, artists generally have a more flexible work environment: >The creative occupations considered in these studies are ove
by minikites 8y ago
The article has a good response to this, artists generally have a more flexible work environment:
>The creative occupations considered in these studies are overwhelmingly in the arts, which frequently provide greater autonomy and less rigid structure than the average nine-to-five job. This makes these jobs more conducive to the success of individuals who struggle with performance consistency as the result of a mood disorder.
People with emotional problems or substance dependence wash out of more structured jobs pretty quickly.
- gh02t 8y agoArtists can also often work in isolation, especially someone already regarded as a genius. I suspect plenty of people have a tendency towards eccentric behavior, but suppress it because they need to participate in society in order to survive. A genius engineer for example is less able to be wildly eccentric, because an engineer is inherently dependent on others and depends on others to implement their designs. Another example is the stereotypical eccentric mathematical genius, of which there are endless examples. Pure math shares something with art here, in that a single gifted person can produce important results independently. I mean, I'm having a hard time coming up with very many examples of famous mathematicians who weren't a bit strange.
- lmm 8y agoEuler is the famous example: one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, who by accounts had an otherwise ordinary life and was a respectable family man.
- opinionator1 8y agoYou make it sound as if he is the exception that proves the rule.
- gh02t 8y agoVon Neumann was also fairly normal. I can think of a few, but I can think of far more who were crazy (many, quite literally).