The Eccentric Candidate

Have you ever worked for a candidate who was very smart...maybe too smart to actually win? ...He had good ideas -- trouble is -- he had too many ideas? Or have you ever run into a genius political consultant who (for some unknown reason) also takes stupid and unnecessary gambles? If this rings true to you, then this is for you:

Clinical psychologist John Gartner has written an interesting book about this very subject...

"Entrepreneurs ... are often arrogant, provocative, unconventional and unpredictable. They are not "well adjusted" by ordinary standards."

From his website: "Hypomania is recognized by psychiatry, as John Gartner points out, as a genetically based condition that endows people with high energy, creativity, accelerated thinking, inflated self-esteem, impulsivity, aggressiveness, and a propensity for taking risks. It is not, by contrast, clinical mania-also called manic depression or bipolar disorder, which is a serious psychiatric illness."

Now I'm not at all saying that this is widespread. But I have definitely run into this situation a time or two...