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Old Dec 16, 2016, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Icare dixit View Post
Ok...

But mania is an ability. In essence it's good, in practice often bad (arguably; maybe in the greater scheme of things it isn't).

Interesting.
Agreed all-around. Someone once described me as "a driven man", and today I am still grateful for that particular attribute or whatever it is and even if/when someone might attribute it to so-called "mental illness". One general manager used to negatively call me a "Prima Donna" in spite of the fact (or possibly because) I had been hired to be "creative" beyond his own abilities...and then at the last job I ever had prior to disability retirement, I always had "free reign" as long as a given budget could be justified in the immediate or at least speculatively. I do not know whether that employer ever realized he was at times trusting my ability to come through while I was only hoping to be able to do so there in his shop that I occasionally viewed as a playground, but maybe there is where my being driven as I am truly made a/the different.
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