>>>I'd like to imagine that most artists are relatively well-adjusted. Keep imagining. But great ones aren't. Go read: Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive I

>>>I'd like to imagine that most artists are relatively well-adjusted. Keep imagining. But great ones aren't. Go read: Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison http://www.amazon.com/Touched-With-Fire-ebook/dp/B001D1YCM2 http://www.amazon.com/Touched-With-Fire-ebook/dp/B001D1YCM2 The Outsider by Colin Wilson http://www.amazon.com/The-Outsider-Colin-Wilson/dp/0874772060 http://www.amazon.com/The-Outsider-Colin-Wilson/dp/087477206... The Price of Greatness: Resolving the Creativity and Madness Controversy by Arnold M. Ludwig http://www.amazon.com/The-Price-Greatness-Creativity-Controversy/dp/1572301171 http://www.amazon.com/The-Price-Greatness-Creativity-Controv... EDIT to add: Why Jobs stood out is because the closest equivalent to what he was is a film director. But business is not set up to hand out accolades like Hollywood does. So instead of everyone learning who did what in Apple -- as with film we find out about sound editors, foley artists, etc, etc. -- we just get the face of Jobs.