Sunday, April 10, 2016

The rich and famous had their own troubles

The Troubled Minds of the Rich and Famous


Darwin was anxious, Frank Lloyd Wright was a narcissist, and Andy Warhol hoarded pizza crusts.

We tend to think that the great figures of history—those who changed the world through their inventions or art or books—were free of the kind of self-doubts and neuroses that can hold back the rest of us. But as Claudia Kalb discovered when researching Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History’s Great Personalities (published by National Geographic), famous people also can suffer from chronic psychological or physiological disorders, which deeply affect their lives and the lives of those around them. New advances in neurological science are now enabling us to better understand their challenges—and our own. (Find out why your brain is hardwired to snap.)

See: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160409-famous-people-with-autism-depression-mental-health-psychological-disorders/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20160407news-mentaldisordersbooktalk&utm_campaign=Content&sf24037494=1

This sounds resonating Timothy Keller's book: 

"Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and and Power"



Whining

Do people even still blogging these days? I have my doubt.
Well, if that is so, then I am one of the almost extinct species here.
I am not usually a complainer, well, a seasonal one perhaps.. But these days it is just unbearable..
I feel like I whine constantly. A constant complainer. Doesn't sound like me, but the pressure had just been too hard, cannot help it.