new information is “mad”. We happily dismiss people who disagree with us as irrational – the white areas in Figure 2. Now, the irony is that we may chose not to accept information new to us whether it is more accurate than our map or less – we actually dismiss people who have an extremely better mind map by saying they are mad. Whereas, the fewer enlightened individuals, such as Einstein or Lennon, actually have far more accurate mind-maps, they perceive reality far more accurately and therefore these genius’s are less mad than the majority of the population! Yet they get labelled as mad!
This labelling as mad can be disorientating to anyone. For the genius it can be very disturbing. The genius experiences isolation as there are so few people who have the accurate
