“A quirky or socially awkward approach to life might be the key to becoming a great artist, composer or inventor,” says new study. The research, carried out by two Vanderbilt University psychologists, offers the “first neurological evidence” that oddballs — those who aren’t mentally disturbed but who aren’t quite, uh normal — are more creative and more likely to access their brains’ right hemispheres than the rest of the population. For some of us, this is very good news.