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There are many so-called mad geniuses in history. Suicide victims include Vincent Van Gogh or Ernest Hemingway. Creative geniuses who have succumbed to alcoholism or other addictions are legion. This leads many to suppose that creativity and psychopathology are related.

An ordinary life allows creative people to put food on the table and hone their crafts at the same time.

• Ernest Hemingway, one of the most famous American authors in the past century, had a day job during most of his literary career.
• Salman Rushdie was a copywri...

There is no correlation between the two.

• Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address on a piece of ordinary stationery that he had borrowed from the friend whose house he was staying at. 
• Ernest Hemingway wrote with a simple fountain pen. Somebody else did the...