5.
Let’s dig a little deeper into this strange
association between what is essentially
a neurological malfunction and career
success. In the Big Pond chapter, I talked
about the fact that being on the outside,
in a less elite and less privileged
environment, can give you more freedom
to pursue your own ideas and academic
interests. Caroline Sacks would have
had a better chance of practicing the
profession she loved if she had gone to
her second-choice school instead of her
first choice. Impressionism, similarly,
was possible only in the tiny gallery that
virtually no one went to, not in the most