How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Everyday Genius - Softcover

Gelb, Michael

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9780722537183: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Everyday Genius

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ISBN 10: 0722537182 ISBN 13: 9780722537183

Publisher: Thorsons, 1998

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Seven Steps to Everyday Genius

This truly inspiring guide teaches readers how to develop their full potential, using Da Vinci’s methods. Simply by imitating this Renaissance master’s insatiable quest for information and experience, we may enhance our own aptitude in all facets of our lives.

Gelb discusses the 7 fundamental elements of Da Vinci’s thought process and has devised practical ways to incorporate them into our own lives. Inspired by the scope of Da Vinci’s achievment, Gelb has devised sidebars, exercises, illustrations and anecdotes to help readers master the whole brain thinking that facilitated Da Vinci’s genius.

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Here's a personal growth guidebook that's won the admiration and recommendation of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England. He calls this "a brilliant, practical guide to awakening and training our vast, unused resources of intelligence and ability." Author Michael Gelb, founder of High Performance Learning and consultant for companies including AT&T and National Public Radio, says that we all can unlock the "da Vincian" genius inside us. Gelb says there are seven critical principles that need to be followed for success, whether you're learning a new language, studying to be a gourmet chef, or just hoping to be more effective on the job:

Curiosita: An insatiably curious approach to life.
Dimonstratzione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience.
Sensazione: The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to clarify experience.
Sfumato: A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
Arte/Scienza: The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination ("whole-brain thinking").
Corporalita: The cultivation of ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
Connessione: A recognition and appreciation for the connectedness of all things and phenomena; "systems thinking".

Gelb discusses each of these principles in relation to what da Vinci accomplished, thereby giving this book a built-in history lesson. The illustrations from the master's work and time add a nice warmth to the work. As the president of NPR said after working with Gelb, this is a programme recommended for "anyone who wants to experience a personal and professional renaissance".

Review:

"By capturing the very essence of DaVinci's life and genius...Michael Gelb guides us in a discovery and understanding of the boundlessness of our own full human potential."--Deepak Chopra, author of The Path to Love and Ageless Body, Timeless Mind

"A brilliant, practical guide to awakening and training our vast, unused resources of intelligence and ability."--Ted Hughes, author of Birthday Letters

"Buy it. Read it! Live it!"--Tony Buzan, author of The Book of Genius and The Mind Map Book

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