Is there a correlation between a contented mental state and inner peace? Of course, there must be. Recently, I was reading Dr. William Durant’s book The History of Philosophy. It is a pleasant bed-time read for the layman. He was touching on FredrickNietzsche and his frustrations with life. Out of this tortured mind, however, came a corpus of work that continues to influence epistemology (1) and metaphysics (2) to this day. There are numerous examples in history of the angst-ridden artist dying at an early age of drug, alcohol or sexual abuse. It is, I believe, the standard and accepted metaphor for the gifted mind: brilliance, suffering and, ultimately, death. An article in the Guardian Newspaper entitled Young, Gifted and Likely to Suffer refutes this paradigm. The author, psychologist Dr. Joan Freeman, “explodes this myth.” She has found that talented people are, in fact, similar to ordinary people, but with extraordinary gifts and thus enhanced opportunity. They need not squander this cadeau nor, conversely, ensure that it achieves its ultimate expression.