Research says experts practice for 10,000 hours. That’s a lot of hours. A crazy amount of hours, one might say. I’ve posted a lot about “deliberate practice” and the work habits of geniuses. They’re ...

This is part 2 of 2. Part 1 can be found here. Vincent Van Gogh never mentions insanity as a habitual resource for an artist, a wellspring from which imaginative ideas might flow. He never mentions ...

The following interview is part of a “future of mental health” interview series that will be running for 100+ days. This series presents different points of view about what helps a person in distress.

In life, as actor Oscar Levant so wisely put it, there is “a thin line between genius and insanity.” I’ll take that quote a step further, and say that nothing accents genius better than insanity. In ...

In earlier times, Daniel Johnston might have been burned as a heretic or confined forever to an asylum of shrieking inmates. But in this pop-cultural age, the self-taught singer-songwriter -- given to ...

We can inherit many traits from our parents eye and hair color, body build, talents and sometimes devastating diseases. In David Auburn’s play Proof, Catherine is mathematically gifted and 25, the ...