Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of my delusionally influenced lines
of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most
recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a
hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
The latter. I don’t think Nash is a reliable narrator.
EDIT: And not merely because of his schizophrenia. Without hard data, I’d be hard-pressed to evaluate whether or not learning a mental habit increased or decreased my sanity, and that’s assuming I’m sane to begin with.
-John Nash, A Beautiful Mind
In other words, recognizing that politics is the mind-killer helped Nash manage his paranoid-scizophrenia.
Or, at least, he believes it did.
Are you saying that it actually didn’t help Nash manage his scizophrenia or are you just inserting the uncertainty back into that statement?
The latter. I don’t think Nash is a reliable narrator.
EDIT: And not merely because of his schizophrenia. Without hard data, I’d be hard-pressed to evaluate whether or not learning a mental habit increased or decreased my sanity, and that’s assuming I’m sane to begin with.