How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci Seven Steps to Genius Everyday AUTHOR: Michael Gelb PUBLISHER: Dell Publishing DATE OF PUBLICATION: 1998 NUMBER OF PAGES: 322 pages Book pic

Besides art, Leonardo was an architect, mathematician, philosopher, and military planner. The Seven da Vincian Principles. Essential elements of genius can be developed. THE BIG IDEA

Besides art, Leonardo was an architect, mathematician, philosopher, and military planner.

The Seven da Vincian Principles.

Essential elements of genius can be developed.

The Seven da Vincian Principles Make a list of 100 questions that are important to you. Review the list and choose the 10 most significant. Find a topic and ask 10 questions about it. Do the same for your career, relationship and health. Pick one question and contemplate. The results can can originate by extending a question. 1. Curiosita: an insatiably curious approach and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning.

Make a list of 100 questions that are important to you.

Review the list and choose the 10 most significant.

Find a topic and ask 10 questions about it. Do the same for your career, relationship and health.

Pick one question and contemplate.

The results can can originate by extending a question.

The Seven da Vincian Principles Examine experience. Pick a topic and write down at least three ideas, opinions, assumptions or beliefs on the topic. Make a strongest argument against your belief. Be aware of the various influences. Learn from mistakes and anti-role models. 2. Dimostrazione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence, and a willingness to learn from mistakes.

Examine experience.

Pick a topic and write down at least three ideas, opinions, assumptions or beliefs on the topic.

Make a strongest argument against your belief.

Be aware of the various influences.

Learn from mistakes and anti-role models.

The Seven da Vincian Principles Sight, sound, touch, taste and smell are the keys to opening the doors of experience. Practice exercises: Visualizations Layered listening Expand your olfactory vocabulary Reflect on the origins of the food you’re tasting Wine tasting Touch objects blindfolded Transform a workplace 3. Sensazione: The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight as the means to enliven experience.

Sight, sound, touch, taste and smell are the keys to opening the doors of experience.

Practice exercises:

Visualizations

Layered listening

Expand your olfactory vocabulary

Reflect on the origins of the food you’re tasting

Wine tasting

Touch objects blindfolded

Transform a workplace

The Seven da Vincian Principles Describe three situations from your life where ambiguity was a factor. Describe the feeling of anxiety. Confusion endurance. Learn to consult the “unconscious database”. Reminiscence effect. 4. Sfumato: A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox and uncertainty.

Describe three situations from your life where ambiguity was a factor.

Describe the feeling of anxiety.

Confusion endurance.

Learn to consult the “unconscious database”.

Reminiscence effect.

The Seven da Vincian Principles Mind mapping. Mind map your next day off. Memory mind map. Use pictures, images, color-coding, highlighting to stimulate the creative association and enhance the memory. 5. Arte/Scienza: Whole brain thinking. The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination.

Mind mapping.

Mind map your next day off.

Memory mind map.

Use pictures, images, color-coding, highlighting to stimulate the creative association and enhance the memory.

The Seven da Vincian Principles Beware of anger and avoid grievous moods, rest your head and keep your mind cheerful, be covered well at night, exercise moderately, eat simple and chew well. Mirror observations. Make a drawing of your body. Develop ambidexterity. 6. Corporalita: The cultivation of grace, ambidexterity, fitness and poise.

Beware of anger and avoid grievous moods, rest your head and keep your mind cheerful, be covered well at night, exercise moderately, eat simple and chew well.

Mirror observations.

Make a drawing of your body.

Develop ambidexterity.

The Seven da Vincian Principles Notice patterns in nature. Use of imaginary dialogue. Think of the origins of things in your life. Micro/Macro contemplation. Visualize. Create a mind map of your life from the perspective of the seven da Vincian Principles. 7. Connessione: A recognition of and appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things and phenomena.

Notice patterns in nature.

Use of imaginary dialogue.

Think of the origins of things in your life.

Micro/Macro contemplation.

Visualize.

Create a mind map of your life from the perspective of the seven da Vincian Principles.

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