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E189 - Re-Release: Nikola Tesla’s Evil Twins: Genius and Madness (E148)

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The Importance of Creativity in a Gun Tesla

How does understanding the mental illness, the bipolar inform how we look at Tesla? Well, it's a age-old question. What is the association of creativity genius with bipolar disorder? Or if you will, in some cases, families that have bipolar disorder in them? He wasn't overly manic or psychotic, at least very much. I guess he would be diagnosed today as bipolar one, but he mostly was hypomanic. People didn't like his ideas as much because he was good as salesman.

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