You have overcome the weaknessess of ordinary men. You are an excentric living by your own rules and focusing your life on the pursuit of excellence. This makes you a boring conversationalist and you are out of touch with local mores, customs, and fashions. You let personal pecularities grow until they seem obsessive in the eyes of others. You do not take critique of your personal habits well - after all lesser people cannot possibly understand your path.
For a character to have an exceptional attribute, outside the "normal" range you must first purchase a specific Pulp Schtick for each sub-attribute. This not only adds a small extra cost, it also gives more or less defined special traits and extraordinary characteristics tied to such high ability scores. Unlike ordinary Pulp schticks, these offer no or very little benefit and some hindrance; they are more flaws than schticks but you still pay for them. If you want to be able to get exceptional attributes but do not want the effects of the schtick, you can pay double price to ignore the effect.
These schticks are considered genre schticks and are not used in all campaigns. See Schticks and Exceptional.