Mxsmanic wrote:
It's unfortunate that these domains are so competitive. I'm not sure
that the type of personality that succeeds at such competitions is
necessarily the best suited to the tasks in question. A manic-
depressive might do the job well, but there might well be other
people without these mood swings who would do as well or better, but
are immediately excluded by competitive recruiting simply because
they don't really have the drive to succeed at any cost.

A truly bipolar personality would never get close to qualifing for NASA
training.

I do find it very interesting that you equate a personality type that in the
real world is one almost always tied to success as a mental illness.