The output of historic geniuses is just insane. The sheer amount of work and discovery and creation they did seems too much for one lifetime. I just don’t understand how they managed all they did.
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It’s not just a matter of finding the time, but also of finding the motivation to commit so hard to their work.
There’s a fair bit of argument emerging that many, if not most, of the world’s greatest ever minds may well have had high-functioning autism. Those most regularly cited as possibly in that camp include Isaac Newton, Michelangelo, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Mozart, Marie Curie, James Joyce, Leonardo da Vinci and Beethoven.
High-functioning autism can provide the ability to focus with single-minded intensity over a protracted period, without social distraction, and that might almost be a precondition to producing a magnum opus, or a lifetime’s body of outstanding work.
It is often said of autistic people that they would ‘rather be right than loved’. While that can sometimes piss people off, cause social isolation and the loss of friends, it might still be the most effective path to getting the big things done.
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