Thinking yourself to death

Anyone else on this boat?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/10/07/creativity.depression/index.html

I wasn't aware that you suffered from creativity.

game, set, match

Yes. Although I thought this was pretty generally accepted already.

Hurting otm

how does science define "creativity", or distinguish it from say: doing nothing all day apart from trying to create art?

Oh just read the damn thing

i read it, you still suck burt stanton

Ladies and Gentlemen, your High IQ Thread of the Day.

Parts of it read like an Onion article.

CREATIVE PEOPLE MUST BE SENSITIVE TO WHAT'S AROUND THEM.

SCIENTISTS ARE COLD AND ANALYTICAL.

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Damn, I was just trying to post up with an easy zing. I didn't expect it to give way to overt hostility.

It's what i"ev experienced since I was 3 years old. I'm used to it

come on burt, no need to be so fucking creative about it.

Ketter and his colleagues compared a healthy control group with bipolar patients, depression patients, and a control group of graduate students in writing and the arts.

ok this is hilarious

this is some mean shit.

The fallacy that work
under pressure...

results in a direct pipeline
to creative genius...

uh, that divine inspiration...

can be conjured by...

well, anything but the most, uh...

mind-bending concentration...

now, this is
the world of the poseur--

the, uh, pretender,
the fraud.

somewhere in Musil's diaries he writes a really good few pages about this shit

read those

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226043886.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1056426162_.jpg

"The arts are more dangerous [than other professions] because they require sensitivity to a large extent," he said. "If you go too far you can pay a price -- you can be too sensitive to live in this world."

ANOTHER THINKING RELATED DEATH...MAN I'M TOO OLD FOR THIS ART LECTURER SHIT

x-post are Musil's diaries any good?

xp: dammit I was just quoting that so I could post this:

"You want to be a WRITER????? Why can't you go into something safer, like coal mining or deep-sea fishing?"

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uhhhh Gaddis did not suffer from manic depression as far as I know. Great book tho

or are we just posting cool books

musil's diaries were pretty good

the book is a manic bernhard rip

agape agape

oh got it--i haven't read any bernhard yet--which one do i start with

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I'm a special genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

p.s. i am just posting 'texts' from the syllabus of this 'madness and genius' comparative lit class i took in lol college

correction is his best, but you may want to start with the woodcutters maybe?

for your information and edification xp

ugh i accidentally bookmarked this thread

more cool readz plz

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For the record I've made as much money writing as you guys probably have doing whatever dorky computer stuff you do. This is probably the wrong -audience- to introduce this to, so to speak.

what makes burt_stanton tick

burt stanton actually dan brown

burt_stanton: writer

I don't think Dan Brown has made just as much money as software professionals; if so, he needs a better agent.

OK seriously, in answer to the kickoff question, a coroner uses the term 'ination' to describe 'loss of will to live'. If that isn't thinking yourself to death, what is?

arguing on ILX?

hello i am interested in guess papers burt stanton writing samples

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holy shiiiiiit they are reprinting (or have reprinted) this???

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yall are brutal

i got u burt_stanton

Burt Stanton (Peter Horton) and Vicky Baxter (Linda Hamilton) are a couple passing through Nebraska who hit a boy with their car. After inspecting the body, Burt, who's a physician, determines that the boy's throat had been slashed before being struck with the car. The boy, Joseph, was caught in the cornfields and stabbed by Malachai before wandering out to the road. Stopping at Gatlin, Burt and Vicky find themselves at the mercy of the children's corn-cult. Vicky is captured by the children when Burt leaves her with Sarah, a girl who can draw pictures of the future. Burt walks into the local church and finds the cult planning the ritual sacrifice of a 19-year-old named Amos, who will be sacrificed to "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" that night with Vicky. Burt is stabbed and while pursued by the children, is assisted by a child named Job. Realizing the situation his girlfriend is in, Burt follows Job and Sarah to the cornfield. Meanwhile, Malachai has turned on Isaac when the latter refuses to try and use Vicky as a lure for Burt, Malachai decides to have Isaac crucified as another sacrifice. Night falls, and the ritual begins.

butthurt stanton

I'm not really that butthurt - I only posted like, three times in this thing.

I enjoyed the article. Thanks for posting it, Burt.

For the record I've made as much money writing as you guys probably have doing whatever dorky computer stuff you do. This is probably the wrong -audience- to introduce this to, so to speak.
intersting wow thanks how much money you make is important 2 me and it obtains much credible one 4 u

people who get wrapped up in their own inner world are more prone to having mental problems, who woudld've guessed

Yeah, that whole article does seem a bit "scientists prove the obvious" but I guess these things have to be restated every few years for those at the back of the class just catching up.

I'm less driven to write the older and more content I get.

Smug git.

Subtext of the article: you are abnormal, gas chamber.

i'm glad burt_scranton's hardscribble existence was rewarded in the end.

"Thinking yourself to death"

Is this like that movie about the guy's head exploding?