"Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists."- Nikola Tesla
Is this true? What is he saying in this quote?
First of all, and you must remember this, all of you reading this post, introverts and extroverts alike, introverts are NOT anti-social. How dare you for even think that? Introverts just recharge in a different way to most other people.
I think what Tesla is saying in this quote is that sometimes you have to disappear to get things done.
You will find that in history, the people who have changed the world and I am thinking Steve Jobs when I write that weren't conformists. They had to go against society. They had to go against what 'the herd' believed in. They had to shut themselves off from those nasty comments and queries about why you are doing such a thing and just get it done because of the vision in their head.
So, if you want to get something done, you have to disappear. You have to be anti-social, whatever that means. (I still think anti-social is a term made up by extroverts to call people who won't go and have a drink with them.)
Cutting yourself off from society shows that you are committed to what you are doing. You are going to give 110% and you are going to win or die trying.
Conformists usually don't try. They just go along with the flow.
Is that what Tesla is saying in the quote? What do you think?
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