As the saying goes, one step ahead of the times is a genius, two steps ahead of the times is a fool, and three steps ahead of the times is a mediocrity (because history spirals up). Many people play themselves to death.
Van Gogh, for example, gave up form in painting and chose to be sensitive to the "hot and cold" color, becoming a leader among impressionist painters. His paintings don't pay attention to exact form, but they are more sensitive to heat or cold than form. Then he won't be worth a hundred times until he dies.
For example, Wang Mang usurped the throne in the Han Dynasty, with one soldier and one pawn-he was so popular. Then he reformed-if you know him, his reform is very socialist-and then he was strangled by the gentry, so he had no choice but to change back, but the people were miserable by him, and the gentry didn't like his reform full of socialist flavor, so his end was betrayal and the death of an idealist.
Another example is Tesla, who invented alternating current, but his biggest research is to prove that wireless energy transmission and intercontinental power wireless transmission, if the invention is successful, can provide electricity for the world without wires-unfortunately, in this case, electricity can not be profitable for businesses, because radio can not be bound and can be used by people in all ranges, so it is banned by big businesses. He is a child prodigy to the core. He only slept for 2 hours every day, and finally got more than 700 invention patents on his own. In order to devote herself to scientific research, Tesla has never been married. Besides being a scientist, he is also a poet, philosopher, music connoisseur, pigeon expert, linguist and Vedic expert. He is proficient in eight languages. But he is unknown. This is the man who is too ahead of the times.