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ES Journal of Neurology

ISSN: 2768-0606

The Genius of Stupidity

  • Editorial

  • James F. Welles, Ph.D.*
  • Professor of Advanced Medicine, President, Cellsonic, Manufacturers of Medical Equipment, United Kingdom
  • *Corresponding author: James F. Welles, Ph.D.
  • Received: Jan 28, 2020; Accepted: Feb 27, 2020; Published: Mar 10, 2020

Inventive genius is due to the creative fantasy of introverts often incapable of grasping even the simplest precepts of social life [1]. Beethoven, for example, lost all effective contact with the social and business worlds before he was thirty years old. He was totally devoid of sympathetic insight and inhabited a world of his own into which no one else could penetrate. Except for a few disastrous occasions, he indifferently left others to live their own ways in their own pragmatic, atonal worlds [2]. To put it bluntly, Beethoven was pretty damned stupid in nonmusical matters, but that was the price he paid for his genius.

Sir Isaac Newton was likewise something of a freak/ odd-ball. He was reclusive, mindless of personal cleanliness, taciturn and so obsessed with his all-consuming work he could forget to eat. He was also insensible to passion and rumored to have died a virgin [3].