A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links between Leadership and Mental Illness - Nassir Ghaemi
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Depression
Leadership
Mania
Psychology
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Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date: August 2011
Duration: 10 hours 28 minutes
Summary:
Here, Nassir Ghaemi draws from the careers and personal plights of such notable leaders as Lincoln, Churchill, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., JFK, and others from the past two centuries to build an argument at once controversial and compelling: the very qualities that mark those with mood disorders—realism, empathy, resilience, and creativity—also make for the best leaders in times of crisis. By combining astute analysis of the historical evidence with the latest psychiatric research, Ghaemi demonstrates how these qualities have produced brilliant leadership under the toughest circumstances.
Take realism, for instance: studies show that those suffering depression are better than “normal” people at assessing current threats and predicting future outcomes. Looking at Lincoln, Churchill, and others, Ghaemi shows how depressive realism helped these men tackle challenges. Or consider creativity, a quality psychiatrists have studied extensively in relation to bipolar disorder. This book shows how mania inspired General Sherman and Ted Turner to design and execute their most creative—and successful—strategies.
Ghaemi’s thesis is robust and expansive; he even explains why sane men like Neville Chamberlain and George W. Bush made such poor leaders. Though sane people are better shepherds in good times, sanity can be a liability in moments of crisis. A lifetime without the cyclical torment of mood disorders can leave one ill equipped to endure dire straits.
Ghaemi’s bold, authoritative analysis offers powerful new tools for determining who should lead us. But perhaps most profoundly, he encourages us to rethink our view of mental illness as a purely negative phenomenon. As this book makes clear, the most common types of insanity can confer vital benefits on individuals and society at large—however high the price for those who endure these illnesses.
“Nassir Ghamei’s book is a provocative examination of the link between leadership, depression, and mania. It will arouse enormous interest, together with anger and disagreement, and many people will want to read it.”—Paul Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of A History of the American People…
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This post has 19 comments with rating of 5/5
April 5th, 2020
Leadership and madness. Say no more. Say no more. Wink Wink.
… Now, if only we had the Leadership part.
April 5th, 2020
You’re not tilting at the tiny hand on the tiller again? He is a ssafe target, after all.
We’re all on the spectrum, of course; but can his theory comfortably encompass Gaddafi, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Boris, Berlusconi, Saddam, Türkmenbaşy, Khan Noonien Singh, Caligula, Commodus, Idi Amin, Mayan CEOs, Sauron, Håkon the Crazy, and the Viking Berserkers, generally?
April 6th, 2020
A local lad from around these here parts - the warrior hero, Cú Chulainn - used to go into these warp spasms, which I’ve always taken to mean a kind of rage trance. You could also think of it as “hulking out” or battle frenzy.
I’m not sure how accurate it is to posit compromised compos mentis for JFK. He was indeed on meth for chronic back pain. And codeine, Demerol, methadone, Ritalin (had Addison’s Disease too - like Jane Austen, Howard Hughes & Bin Laden). This meant that he was experiencing bouts of euphoria as he had his finger on the nuclear button. That’s all.
April 6th, 2020
The short-fingered vulgarian is a malignant narcissist who is more enamoured of his ratings and his facile ravings as he ravishes the country contrary to common sense should be sanctioned and sent straight to a sanitorium before he gets the populace post-pestilence pinin’ for the fjords - that we all become EX-POPULACE.
April 6th, 2020
No, too ambiguous - you’re going to have to get off the fence & be more unequivocal.
So you’re saying that he’s a man of destiny, the man of the hour, an Orange Avenger?
If we didn’t have him, we wouldn’t have Jared Binks; then where would we be?
After all, we’re all (too) human; we’re all mortal (mortified); and we all breathe the same (Covid-19 infused) air.
April 6th, 2020
Let me be blunt, force trauma upon the toddler ‘n chief, would be a shame to witness the untimely deaths of so many so many, I had not thought death had undone so many, but for his incompetence gross and negligent, so many, and not mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, this blood-dimmed tide is loosed upon us all while that rough beast, struts his hour upon the state, full of sound and fury, but does not wake us, and we drown.
April 6th, 2020
‘Wheels on the bus’ is about my level, but thx for trying to civilise me all the same - I needs it. “Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.” “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
I just wish that we didn’t have to live in such gratuitously interesting times.
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
April 6th, 2020
Where are up and down-vote buttons when you need them? Sauch a civilised and civilising discussion between ssafe and caeser above. 5 stars for the remarks. I don’t know much about leadership and madness. All of them are mad, but some have method in it and others are mad north, north-west.
April 6th, 2020
Maybe Nassir’s next book should focus on uncovering the links between fraudulent psychologists and mental illness!
April 6th, 2020
@Audiobooks: Don’t forget to hit Like and Subscribe ;)
Yes, it would be cool if we had some Ars style voting here :D
April 6th, 2020
And yes, the Immortal Bard seemed to have something sensible to say about everything… a hit, a very palpable hit.
April 10th, 2020
@ssafe
Of course he did, even on this topic. This is an important one because madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
April 11th, 2020
“Madness in great ones” - and Boris too, right?
April 11th, 2020
Who could be greater than Pfeiffer, the imperious saviour who only recently slayed COVID-19 with his bare, chunky hands.
What have our pickers and stealers achieved?
April 11th, 2020
“There go the people. I am their leader, I must follow them.” It pays to be an unparalleled germaphobe, it would seem.
In economic terms, to an extent this coming election looks to be one to lose (if that can be engineered). Otherwise, the victor will emerge triumphant - but on a mound of ashes.
As usual, the Chinese are also playing an absolute blinder. They vanquished the beast in record time & numbers. It just shows what can be accomplished in the absence of a free, inquisitive press.
April 11th, 2020
I’ve been listening to the Economist uploaded by Userabuser for last 3 weeks. They are all praise for China and Singapore’s handling of the crises. I think they are converting towards the virtues of Chinese state-capitalism, all praise for Huawei. The tide is turning. We will come out of this with less “freedom” which might help us control inequality, foreign wars and genaral high levels of selfishness in the Western societies.
April 17th, 2020
Ghaemi sums up his thesis as:“The best crisis leaders are either mentally ill or mentally abnormal; the worst crisis leaders are mentally healthy.” Interesting premise
I wonder if Nassir’s book covers President Obama’s mental status during his “leadership” period. Or, Bill Clinton’s mental status as a sexual-predator-in-Chief. When I go to the book store I’ll thumb through it to find out, or if he’s just being selective.
October 24th, 2021
A lot of these comments sure didn’t age too well did they. I’d laugh but it’s getting way out of hand.
July 7th, 2022
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