Many famous people have had Mental Illness, it can affect anyone...

The thing with Good Ole Charlie was that he didn't use his brilliance in a social norm type of way, instead, driven by drugs and his symptoms he choose/was led down a very bad path, the more power he got, the more validation he received. The mind is a immensely powerful thing, some use it's power wisely and constructively, others walk down the dark recesses and pathways and not only peak, but live in the spaces that most conscious people will not go inside, the mind will actually prevent it, for most. Anyways....

Abraham Lincoln
James Taylor
Ludwig van Beethoven
Vincent Van Gogh
Winston Churchill
Virginia Woolf
John Nash
Lionel Aldridge
Jane Pauley
Leo Tolstoy, author
Charles Dickens, English author,
John Keats, poet,
Michelangelo, artist
Bette Midler, entertainer
Charles Schultz, cartoonist
duck Clark, entertainer
Irving Berlin, composer
Rosemary Clooney, singer
Jimmy Piersall, baseball player. Boston Red Sox
Burgess Meredith, actor,
Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky, composer
Charlie Pride, singer
Sylvia Plath, poet and novelist.
Janet Jackson, singer
Patty Duke, actress,
Roseanne Barr, comedian
Marlon Brando, actor
Maurice Bernard, actor
Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
Margot Kidder, Actress
Jonathon Winters, comedian
Pat Conroy, author
Ernest Hemingway, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist,
Tennessee Williams, American playwright

Quote from: Fry on November 06, 2010, 06:42:29 AM
Many famous people have had Mental Illness, it can affect anyone...

John Nash

That was a great movie.

Quote from: Fry on November 06, 2010, 06:42:29 AMThe mind is a immensely powerful thing, some use it's power wisely and constructively, others walk down the dark recesses and pathways and not only peak, but live in the spaces that most conscious people will not go inside, the mind will actually prevent it, for most.

Being somewhat shallow and avoiding the things that make you (us) uncomfortable is indeed a great recipe to simply stroll through much of what life throws at you.
However, there are those amongst us that have the capacity to see much further into their existence than the shallow level most of us usually operate at.

Scholastically I'm ill equipped to carry this much further. Any deeper than what a layperson could derive from a few back issues of Psychology Today magazine is the best I can do. Non-the-less, your thread is fascinating.

If you can transfer said experience & energy into the fabrication of your bike project, then all the better.
Some will love the finished product, and some. . .
well, some will look at it and simply say "your nuts".

Cool thread,
-Ej-

Ej, by the sophistication of your reply, I think you have a far better grasp on Psychology than what you can learn in the mammby pamby Psych Today rag....

All that matters is if I like it...I like feedback, obviously Pos. feedback, but Neg. feedback helps as well.

Erm, sorry if I haven't been keeping up but, here's what I understand

(1) You're doing a cool GS build
(2) You're doing it for personal reasons

Which is all cool  Now, is it finished? Where can I find the latest pics?

Quote from: ivany on November 06, 2010, 05:28:50 PM
Erm, sorry if I haven't been keeping up but, here's what I understand

(1) You're doing a cool GS build
(2) You're doing it for personal reasons

Which is all cool  Now, is it finished? Where can I find the latest pics?

Dude, it ain't finished, probably won't be for a while if I keep fussing with every stupid little detail....

I whore out way to many pics.....Search my posts, I don't wanna look like I'm posting, just to shamelessly plug my modest GS.