LEONARDO DA VINCI Inspiring People Lessons for us #MesueseAurela

1. Inspiring
People
:Lessons
for us
#MesueseAurela
Leonardo
Da Vinci

2. Leonardo Da Vinci
teaches an important
lesson: mentorship can
pave this way to
independent success. The
guidance that Verrochio
gave to Da Vinci led him
to his success, and the
skills he obtained during
his apprenticeship
allowed Da Vinci to hone
his artistic talents.
Inspirational Lessons: As expected,
after many
years of
reaping the
benefits of
having a
mentor,
Leonardo Da
Vinci became
a mentor
himself; taking
on a young
aristocratic
assistant.

3. Leonardo Da Vinci was
not only a painter; he was
also an architect, musician
and an inventor. His
greatness, however, was
not built up by himself
alone – when Da Vinci
was only 15 years old he
moved to Florence to
work as an apprentice for
one of the most
successful artists of his
day; Andrea di Cione.

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Da Vinci thrived under the mentorship of di Cione. He was taught technical skills and offered opportunities to
learn a vast range of subjects; from leather working to sculpting. During this time Da Vinci showed di Cione (also
known as Verrochio) that he had a talent greater than Verrochio had experienced.

5. Da Vinci found that working with Verrochio was
so beneficial that he continued to collaborate
with him after he had qualified as a master in the
Guild of St LukeDa Vinci is a good example of
allowing oneself to be taught how to use one’s
talents in order to be able to work individually in
the future. At 30 years old Da Vinci started his
own practice, but decided to move to Milan and
was then mentored by Ludovico Sforza, who
taught him more skills in Art.

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Shortly after the completion
of The Last Supper, Leonardo
made friends with a famous
Mathematician; Fra Luca
Pacioli who ended up
teaching Da Vinci advanced
Maths.
Wherever Leonardo Da Vinci
moved to, he would find
somebody who could educate
him further in his interest at
the time. In the 1500s,
however, he started working
on his own as a court painter
and engineer for Louis XII.

7. As a leader, it is also necessary to sometimes be taught how to better use your talents, and
also how to lead. Every great leader has had somebody who inspires them to do so.
Although Da Vinci was naturally talented, he found it incredibly beneficial to have an
experienced person to teach him more and develop his talents into expertise. Da Vinci also
became a great mentor for the young assistant, and is still used to inspire art students with his
fine technique and skill.

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“It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment rarely sat
back and let things happen to them. They
went out and happened to things.”
Words of Wisdom:

9. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not
enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the
quality it should have.”

10. “You will never have a
greater or lesser
dominion than that over
yourself...the height of a
man's success is gauged
by his self-mastery; the
depth of his failure by his
self-abandonment. ...And
this law is the expression
of eternal justice. He who
cannot establish
dominion over himself
#MesueseAurelawill have no dominion
over others.”
“He who wishes to be
rich within a day, will be
hanged within a year.”
“He who loves practice
without theory is like the
sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and
compass and never knows
where he may cast.”
References:
http://www.leonardoda-vinci.org/biography.html
http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/davinci/summary.html
http://www.mentormob.com/learn/i/art-6/leonardo-da-vinci
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