Disclaimer: This may be extremely obvious. — Disclaimer: This may be extremely obvious. i — The Weird Problem I’ve seen theories about why smart, genial, creative, and overall high-achieving people are often “atypical”, and even discussions praising atypicality as the capital Q ality for making great discoveries, funding companies, finding everlasting love, leading armies into battle, untying the Gordian knot, and whatnot.