How to Think like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
Michael Gelb's How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci is an inspiring and inventive guide that teaches readers how to develop their full potential, using the principles of Da Vincian thought identified by the author.
Beginning with a brief historical biography of Da Vinci and an overview of the astounding advances made in the arts and sciences during the Renaissance, Gelb illustrates the seven fundamental elements of Da Vinci's thought process:
- Questionare: A questing, insatiably curious approach to life
- Dimostrazione: 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 interconnectedness of all things and phenomena. "Systems" thinking.
Loaded with practical exercises, quotes, sidebars, illustrations and material drawn directly from Da Vinci's personal notebooks, How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci is both a tribute to his great achievements and a call to carry on his legacy in our everyday lives by utilizing our potential to the best of our ability.
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Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age
Brain Power presents practical, evidence-based information on improving your mind throughout life. Michael J. Gelb and Kelly Howell present an accessible and fun-to-read survey of the leading experts in the field of healthy aging, including physicians, gerontologists and neuroscientists. They've also studied the habits and practices of men and women who are paragons of healthy aging. Their approach isn’t just based on scientific theory and academic research. They actually apply everything they recommend in these pages and will guide you to apply these methods so that you will improve your mind every year of your life.
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Innovate Like Edison
Innovate Like Edison presents Edison's world-changing innovation methods as a cohesive, practical, and immediately applicable system. Based on three years of research, Innovate Like Edison offers readers an in-depth view of Edison's comprehensive innovation approach - an analysis which has never previously been documented. Readers will learn to apply Edison's Five Competencies of Innovation™ either to their work lives or their personal lives, following the timeless principles Edison used to generate his record-breaking 1,093 U.S. patents.
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