The Beauty and the Beast.

Many so called "great people" often suffer from extreme psychological damage and deformations.

Usually the needs to be a "huge drive" in your psyche that propels you to "more" than the usual person.

Many great artists, industrialists, scientists and politicians were not driven by mere talents, but the crazy need to please their parents (like Mozart or Michael Jackson) or patch some other painful hole in their personality (like being loved, accepted and adored by everybody).

So it’s no surprise that Artistic tendencies linked to ’schizophrenia gene’ and many great people often suffered from mental illnesses like depressions or bi-polar-disorder (like Stephen Fry or Robbie Williams).

But it’s that very inner turmoil that drives these people forward to excel.

Psychological pain not always translates into creativity and so called "greatness" – many people suffer heavily form such conditions without reaping any "benefits" from them.