John Nash: A Misrepresented Genius

“Find[ing] a true[ly] original idea[,] … is the only way I will ever [be able] distinguish myself”(A Beautiful Mind). The flaw of super ego is the perception of the unique centrism as preferable to social collectivism, finding one's place as opposed to the divisional. Nash was one of these for instance, he was an egomaniac, always focusing on what would make him be famous. For this reason, Hollywood portrayed John Nash’s life poorly, by neglecting the reality of his life actual characteristics, the realism of the cognitive diseases of schizophrenia, and overall theory that higher IQ leads to madness.

Although, Hollywood effectively depicted the emotional side of the film very well. They unsuccessfully achieved John’s true story, as well as

Due to neglecting the understanding of the intellectual disease, Hollywood viewed it as a chance to go off into a more understanding film as well as emotional. John suffered from a “serious mental illness that interferes with a person’s ability to think clearly, manage emotions, make [rational] decisions and [the ability] relate to others”(Nami). John first developed paranoia, which later on lead his many complications:

… Nash [going] nuts — [and succumbing] to schizophrenia in his twenties, which ruined him for decades — he fell into bizarre [fantasies] that included anti-Semitic world conspiracies, crackpot numerology, and a determined attempt to renounce his identity, even his citizenship, as an American. He abandoned his wife and son (the legitimate wife and son, that is; the illegitimate pair he had long ago renounced) and bounced around the world for years. Alicia divorced him, though they did stay together, after a fashion.

Schizophrenia is rare, “‘[a]bout 1 percent of the population will develop schizophrenia in their lifetime, and more than 2 million Americans suffer from it in a given year. Experts say that only one in five will recover completely — and they probably won't be able to do it through willpower alone”(ABC News). The veracity during his span from the age of thirty to sixty, all depicts on the “so-called schizophrenia disappeared with no medications”, even going as far to write to himself about “[g]radually ... [beginning] to intellectually reject some of [his] delusionally induced lines of thinking that had been characteristic of [his] orientation”(Siebert).

John Nash was a very unique individual, he had the IQ 106. A real intelligence is finding common denominators, connecting things in more ways than one. It is not uncommon that people developed “schizophrenia[,] … are more likely work[ing] in creative jobs that require high levels of cognitive and artistic intelligence [rather] than individuals who do not suffer from these mental disorders”(Wlassoff). In conclusion, the movie portrayal of a misunderstood, A brilliant mind sees integration of people and ideas to the highest state of order as creativity, rather than the differentiation individualism associated with