this is insane - the investors' plans are very unlikely to align with his personal wants and needs (unlike a business where the goal of making money is shared between the business and its shareholders).
some of the examples in the article make this abundantly clear:
* the sleep experiment, where he was obviously suffering by the end
* the gay relationship which, while the article doesn't mention whether Merrill is bisexual, certainly seems to imply that he isn't and went through with the relationship to appease his shareholders
> By definition, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results
That's a pithy cliched phrase, but it's not the definition.
One really needs to read through the DSM (it's a flawed political document firmly embedded in the prejudices of its day (i.e. today) that's more pre-scientific taxonomy than science), but the short version:
Insanity, craziness or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms...
some of the examples in the article make this abundantly clear:
* the sleep experiment, where he was obviously suffering by the end
* the gay relationship which, while the article doesn't mention whether Merrill is bisexual, certainly seems to imply that he isn't and went through with the relationship to appease his shareholders