The Bond King reveals that he recognized his autism spectrum disorder in his 70s after reading ‘The Big Short’
Investing legend Bill Gross retired on Friday with the bombshell revelation that he has the autism-spectrum-disorder condition commonly known as Asperger syndrome, telling Bloomberg Television:
Tune In: Bill Gross is hanging up his hat. @ErikSchatzker sits down with him on his last day at Janus Henderson to look back on a decades long career ▶️https://t.co/EYmHTvsTvD pic.twitter.com/IzK5lLrIwI “I’m sort of proud of it, because it explains a lot about me. … It’s allowed me to stay at 30,000 feet as opposed to being on the ground,” Gross said, admitting that it was also partially responsible for his infamous short temper. “That’s not necessarily good in terms of one-to-one. People think you’re angry or an a-hole or whatever. But it helps you to focus on the longer-term things without getting mixed up in the details.
He and Burry are not alone. Nobel laureate in economics Vernon L. Smith has said that his Asperger’s had “deficiencies” and “selective advantages.” For example, “I can switch out and go into a concentrated mode and the world is completely shut out. If I’m writing something, nothing else exists. Perhaps even more importantly, I don’t have any trouble thinking outside the box. I don’t feel any social pressure to do things the way other people are doing them, professionally.
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