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> I feel both Musk and Jackson could have greatly benefited from a few more people telling them "you idiot, that's fucking mental". I agree with you but imagin
by askafriend 3y ago
> I feel both Musk and Jackson could have greatly benefited from a few more people telling them "you idiot, that's fucking mental".
I agree with you but imagine if Elon had listened when people said the same thing about starting an electric car company, a reusable rocket company or a brain-interface company.
Or if Michael Jackson had listened to all the people that told him the sounds on his album were too crazy and fused too many genres together.
Ultimately it's a fine line between genius and crazy. You have to acknowledge that often where genius resides, so does crazy.
I mean look at Steve Jobs, clearly incredible talent - but also harbored some unconventional beliefs about medicine which many say ultimately led to his premature death.
Even Achilles had his heel.
- arp242 3y agoMost smart/innovative people don't pull off this kind of weird behaviour. Lots of not-so-smart people do the exact same shitty behaviour. It's just a bullshit excuse for bullshit behaviour. And those weren't widely held views either so it's not even accurate.
- askafriend 3y agoI'm not excusing the shitty behavior or saying the behavior isn't shitty. The world would be such a simple place if it really was as simple as "shitty behavior = shitty person". It'd certainly make my life easier if this were the case. But the world is so much more complicated and difficult to comprehend than that. Often the most interesting stuff happens in the gray areas where you have to wrestle with multitudes. We all contain multitudes ourselves.