Is Insanity a Geniuses' Secret Weapon?

http://people.howstuffworks.com/mad-genius.htm
This is the source of my latest article^. Yes, a real web site!!!!!!!!

So, it's blog time again! I believe I've found a pretty interesting article this week, at least it makes me feel better! I happened to see it as one of those "latest things in the news" kind of things on my Yahoo home page.

Okay, so now I'll actually tell you what the article's about! It's talking about how some of the most intelligent people to ever live were actually mentally insane!!!!! :] This is not a new topic, everyone has been suspecting poor Einstein for years. However there is proof to back it up this time around. Historians have been interpreting letters and works of those crazy geniuses and have come to the conclusion that they really were quite mad (most likely b/c no one commented on their blogs! haha). Anyway, the article also claimed that "creative types" (poets, painters, musicians, etc.) are more likely to be dignoised with bipolar disorder than the general (meaning normal and boring) population. Some of the people that had bipolar disorder include: writers Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway; and painter Jackson Pollock!! They go on to say, "Creative people possess little to no 'latent inhibition,' the unconscious ability to reject unimportant or irrelevant stimuli. The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it, even though that object is much more complex and interesting than he or she thinks. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities." WOW, look what I can do!!!!! Well, I don't know about you but that clears a lot up for me!

So, Here's another thing I learned and found rather interesting-

The Top 5 Mad Geniuses are:

5. Sir Isaac Newton (didn't expect that did you?, that's b/c he has an important title like Sir. Proof that it can happen to anyone.)
4. Ludwig van Beethoven ( give him a break for crying out loud!)
3. Edgar Allan Poe (I still love you Poe, I never expected anything less!)
2. Vincent van Gogh ( WHAT?? This guy wasn't crazy at all, he only chopped off his own ear!!!)
And, drumroll please, the moment we've all been waiting for
The number one mad genius is:
1. John Nash (yeah, maybe he was a little messed up, just a little! haha)

Yea, that was fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, that's pretty much my blog for this week I hope you like it.
I'll leave you with a question to contemplate:

Were these geniuses really crazy, and vice versa, do you have to be crazy to be a genius???????????