Each of us has a personality profile with strengths — and their shadow. I am an "achiever maximiser"... so let's design computer CPUs before I have left high school, get an Ivy League math degree, climb wild Scottish mountains in winter, trek across the Himalaya, push the boundaries of computer science, "explore the mind" (don't ask), unpick this crazy Q stuff... etc.

It's not a boast, just my lived reality, and the dark side is I find it really hard to unwind and relax. Everything in the world is fodder for my autist to analyse, or my achiever to maximise, even the idiotic things I have done. Sitting still enough to read a book is a huge challenge for me. Stilling still and not doing anything? OMG HELP THIS IS KILLING ME.

I am sure you will recognise your own towering gifts vs the misshapen madness from their shadow. We keep acting it out, without pausing to ask if these automatic ways of being really serve us. Crazy times can make the personal madness part harder to manage.