People's minds work differently. As you can see from the list of bipolar people, they are almost all entertainers or involved in something creative. They have compulsions that lead them to behave in a certain way, that lend themselves to becoming famous entertainers or creatives.
I can't say much about that, as I am nowhere near bipolar. I have obsessive traits, though it's not really something people would notice unless they were quite astute. I'd guess most successful people outside of entertainment have obsessive traits. Someone who has these traits has a constant level of anxiety that they are not producing enough, not working enough, didn't get enough done, their work is not high enough quality. They could be the undisputed maestro of their craft and still feel that. Without those feelings, they would not have driven themselves to be at a pinnacle.
Since I started doing things I was interested in, I have always been obsessed with them. And I became very good at them very quickly. If I didn't have that outlet for my compulsions, maybe I'd have ended up going wobbly. I know someone else who has obsessive traits and was diagnosed by the mentalist pill pushers as OCD. They put him on meds. Now he says he is cured, and the cure was to find outlets for these compulsions, namely being a good father and a manic business owner. If he instead sunk into booze and computer games as an outlet, all he'd have to show for himself is a puffy liver and a purse of WoW gold.
Bipolar seems to be slightly different in that the compulsion something in the realm of creativity and exuberance. If they are not hitting their targets with that I suspect they'd have a difficult time and receded inwards. I know a bipolar who has the same physiognomy and behaviour as Kanye. He's never really found much of an outlet for his creativity and exuberance. As a result he cut himself off from all/most of his friends and lives as a bit of a reculse now. Maybe if I see him again I'll hand him a copy of
The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and see if that spring him to life.
There is a lot of jealousy in Our Advanced Liberal Democracies. In particular people will look at these magnetic bipolar celebrities and wish they could be like them. But it seems there is the other side to these things, which may relate to the only way we are all equal in the eyes on God. With all that is good in the world, there is some down side. These bipolar celebs are often quite isolated and suffer extreme mood swings as they go from high to low. For myself, I have reaped the earthly rewards of being obsessive, but it has come with it's downsides. There are likely people who would inspect my life and wish to get their paws on some of my worldly baubles, but would they be happy with the downsides?
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