I am not saying it is just "passion". There are even more possibly correlated factors - e.g. ADHD, bipolar, OCD, autism, schizophrenia, etc. From "The Mad Geni

I am not saying it is just "passion". There are even more possibly correlated factors - e.g. ADHD, bipolar, OCD, autism, schizophrenia, etc. From "The Mad Genius Mystery": https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/articles/201707/the-mad-genius-mystery https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/articles/201707/the-mad...: > The fine line between genius and insanity on the interplay of autistic and psychotic tendencies among some mathematicians: Nash, Gödel, Newton and foremost: Alexander Grothendieck.