Topic > Compare and contrast the mind with a beautiful mind

The film revealed that Nash has a god-like narcissistic complex. For example, when speaking to his hallucination, Charles, described himself by saying, “Despite my privileged upbringing, I'm actually quite balanced. I have a chip on both shoulders” (Grazer, 2002). After graduate school, Nash made it clear that he felt like he was too good for his job as a professor; for example, on the first day of class, Nash posted a nearly impossible mathematical equation and told his students that it would take months to find an equation with that degree of difficulty (Grazer, 2002). The way Nash approached human interaction in both the book and the film deviated from the normal reactions a person might have based on any particular scenario; intrinsically characteristic of schizophrenia (American Psychiatric Association,