Would someone consider you ...Eccentric?

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Permalink Reply by Eugen Suman on July 13, 2007 at 10:26am

I wonder if anyone will admit :) Lucky for me I work at a small agency and my colleagues are also my friends. So they like me even if I get a little strange now and then :)

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Permalink Reply by J.S. Gilbert on July 14, 2007 at 11:51am

If reading poetry to a mountain goat by the pale moonlight makes one eccentric, then perhaps I am.

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Permalink Reply by TJ on July 16, 2007 at 12:31am

I'll admit it...I'm strange as all hell, but its a good strange,or so I'm told by others.

I always have people stopping by my place for conversation or to see the weird crap in my office.

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Permalink Reply by Kurt Beren Geiger on July 17, 2007 at 4:05am

When you're strange
No one remembers your name

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Permalink Reply by Sherean on July 18, 2007 at 3:18pm

Depends on the group. If I'm around my MBA friends or my hubby's engineering crowd, then I am a TOTALLY CREATIVE, "crazy" chick. (I think my in-laws may think the same thing.) On the other hand, if I'm around an artsy crowd, then I'm the CONVENTIONAL business person. (Perhaps because I found a way to make money doing this?)

It really does seem to depend on who you're around. I remember in school, I was one of the "smart kids" in the class until they put me in the advanced program. Then, I was just "average."

I think many great artists were probably considered quite sane by their peers, but a little "out there" by non-artists. However, aside from the obvious odd fellows like Van Gogh, there were some artists who led quite normal lives . . . Monet comes to mind. I think the common denominator may be less mania and more an insatiable curiousity . . . a quest to understand passion and purpose perhaps.

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Permalink Reply by TJ on July 19, 2007 at 4:55pm

Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bramante, Van Eyck, Botticelli, Picasso, Neiman, Raphael, Warhol, Dali, Pollock...


just a few with a "screw loose".

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Permalink Reply by tobin on July 19, 2007 at 12:06am

How do people without a bit of a manic side get anything done?

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Permalink Reply by TJ on July 19, 2007 at 4:31pm

I think the one true key to getting ANYTHING done while funneling your thoughts through a mania-enhanced filter is ...

Eliminating the people who are in your proverbial way and only seem to have the raw, natural talent to kill any and ALL momentum while they infuse a naysayers mindset that detracts from the purity of the plumbers line of any great idea.

One needs to have a "1000 yard stare" THROUGH people like that.

I love, cherish and embrace my "spurts".

I like hearing "great", "wild" and "brain is definitely wired differently" in the same sentence when someone is talking about me...even if it has a negative connotation.

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Permalink Reply by TJ on July 19, 2007 at 5:29pm

...and there is certainly a LARGE bunch of naysayers in this world. Too many , actually.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Laurence Baron on July 20, 2007 at 8:40am

Since I'm the sole proprietor of my company, TJ - and the only employee - I do not consider myself in any sense "strange." Having provocative conversations with my staff is quite normal around here. I get rave reviews from them about my loud tropical shirts and they think my work excellent. I told them about the great bumper sticker I saw yesterday: "Republicans for Voldemort." Everyone laughed.

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Permalink Reply by Sunil Shibad on July 20, 2007 at 10:18am

I would admit that I am seen as strange but my friends love me anyway!
It is not just mania but also depression.
Many great creative souls were so-called manic depressives.

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Permalink Reply by Angela Glenn on July 20, 2007 at 10:42am

TJ, you may want to check out Mr. Webber's column this week. http://www.madisonavenew.com/ And, btw, you'll find me credited under "voice of reason."

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