Arnold’s New Book is the Most Schwarzenegger Thing I’ve Ever Read in My Life
I read 14 books in last month, and the 3rd one might even accurately label Arnold’s psychiatric condition
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As you’ll see, this is not a hit piece on Arnold Schwarzenegger. His new book, Be Useful, is actually phenomenal (I took 5+ pages of notes), but there’s something up with Arnold’s brain.
Arnold just has this…energy about him. This drive. This…fire.
It’s not unique to him — the 3rd book I read last month tells amazing stories of people with similar infernos raging inside them — but he’s one of the best living examples of it, I think.
The term is hypomania, and while not exactly a psychiatric disorder, it’s pretty much the closest you can get without actually having one.
It’s actually not even such a bad thing, either, the case studies in the book notwithstanding. With appropriate levels of emotional control and a strong character, you can control it.
The prefix “hypo” means “under” and so you can think of hypomanics as “not as” manic, or “less” manic than someone who would be said to have a…
