Creative Individual as Dark Personality (see PINNED COMMENT)
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2024-01-15

Creative people are feared and hated, ostracized and punished, unless they are willing to clown themselves or dumb down and conform to the biases, prejudices, and errors of the masses. 

High IQ does not translate into success in the absence of perseverance, agreeableness, industriousness, stability (self-regulation), humility, a capacity for teamwork (minimal empathy and respect for others), mental health, a social support network, and luck. Many geniuses are homeless or incarcerated and all but forgotten.

Reality testing: reality perceived differently (autism). Coupled with recklessness, fearless godlike immunity, it leads to exploratory behavior.

Originality, novelty, difference: synoptic connectivity appears schizotypal or even psychotic (Schizotypy) (psychoticism and creativity). It is often disorganized initially (inspiration, intuition, dreams).

Attention multitasking generates unexpected insights and synergies.

Impatience, grandiosity or contempt and condescension: block out noise, ignore criticism.

Lability and dysregulation as sources of inspiration. 

Proclivity for change, thrills, risk result in innovation.

Inordinate hardships in life, resilience tested.

LITERATURE

Reddy IR, Ukrani J, Indla V, Ukrani V. Creativity and psychopathology: Two sides of the same coin? Indian J Psychiatry. 2018 Apr-Jun;60(2):168-174. doi: 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_129_18. PMID: 30166672; PMCID: PMC6102953. 

Barrie, W., Yang, Y., Irving-Pease, E.K. et al. Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations. Nature 625, 321–328 (2024). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06618-z.pdf

Tufts University. "Biologists Link Huntington's Disease To Health Benefits In Young." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 26 September 2007. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070925130029.htm

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