Brilliant people

Brilliant people break with society’s concepts, not only in their art but with their behaviour. Drugs, unhealthy relationships, self demand, depression, extra concerns with image – all situations and feelings which tend to bring pain to the ones ahead of their time and shock the conservatives.

I would really like to understand the neuroscience behind all that. Do brilliant people create unique synapses? Do they have bigger doses of some kind of hormone? Or are they just more daring than others to expose themselves to new situations and break with current paradigms?

Well, one way or another, people like Michael Jackson do live more intensively, suffer a whole deal greater and leave profound marks in the way everybody else sees the world.