{"id":274,"date":"2012-11-09T01:21:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T19:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saravanan.org\/?p=274"},"modified":"2018-07-29T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T10:05:44","slug":"little-bit-of-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saravanan.org\/little-bit-of-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Bit of Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Starry<\/p>\n

4 out of 5 writers are known to have incidence of bipolar disorder in their family. \u00a01 in 2 entrepreneurs are known to have ADHD spectrum disorder. \u00a0People are known to get powerful religious visions after epileptic seizures.<\/p>\n

What is going on here? \u00a0Why haven’t these conditions go away from human gene pool, even though they usually are detrimental to the carrier’s ability to reproduce?<\/p>\n

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Consider gayness. \u00a0Gay people don’t get a chance to pass their genes. \u00a0Gayness is an evolutionary dead end. \u00a0Then, why does gay genes still exist in the population? \u00a0Some people think that androgynous people are selected more often. \u00a0Nature, in its efforts to produce androgynous people, ends up over-doing by producing gay people.<\/p>\n

Likewise, little bit of madness offers an evolutionary advantage, which more than compensates for the\u00a0debilitations. \u00a0Nature, in it ability to produce slightly eccentric people (who are typically more successful) ends up overdoing at times.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, how much madness is good for you is decided by how well you are able to handle your condition, if you are able to extract an advantage from it, if you are able to nullify the damages, etc.<\/p>\n

If you are one of the people who have a beautiful mind<\/a>, don’t try to be normal. \u00a0Before you do that, please think (a) what unique advantages does your eccentricity bring you and (b) how you can counter\/manage its debilitations.<\/p>\n

If you ace these two requirements, the world will praise you for your uniqueness. \u00a0Not call you mad!<\/p>\n

At the top of this post, I’ve clip a Vincent van Gogh’s painting called ‘Starry Night’. \u00a0This work, the way he draws the stars in it, is considered to bear evidences to his epileptic seizures.<\/address>\n