Michael Gelb

Sensazione. Sensazione. Sharpen your senses. Sharpen your senses. So Leonardo wrote that the five senses are the ministers of the soul.

He trained his senses like an Olympic athlete would train their body for competition. But you know what he wrote 500 years ago, 550 years ago in Tuscany, Leonardo wrote, the average person looks without seeing, eats without tasting, breathes in without awareness of aroma or fragrance, talks without thinking, basically doesn't pay attention to the beauty that's all around them.

He trained his senses like an Olympic athlete would train their body for competition. But you know what he wrote 500 years ago, 550 years ago in Tuscany, Leonardo wrote, the average person looks without seeing, eats without tasting, breathes in without awareness of aroma or fragrance, talks without thinking, basically doesn't pay attention to the beauty that's all around them.

He trained his senses like an Olympic athlete would train their body for competition. But you know what he wrote 500 years ago, 550 years ago in Tuscany, Leonardo wrote, the average person looks without seeing, eats without tasting, breathes in without awareness of aroma or fragrance, talks without thinking, basically doesn't pay attention to the beauty that's all around them.

So he advocates, and the principle of sensazione advocates, consciously sharpening your sensory awareness. And this becomes obviously more important as you get older. And what's the best, most beautiful way to do it is to appreciate nature and appreciate beauty. Go for a walk and have a theme of, what do I see? What are the colors I see today? Let's look at the different shades of green.

So he advocates, and the principle of sensazione advocates, consciously sharpening your sensory awareness. And this becomes obviously more important as you get older. And what's the best, most beautiful way to do it is to appreciate nature and appreciate beauty. Go for a walk and have a theme of, what do I see? What are the colors I see today? Let's look at the different shades of green.

So he advocates, and the principle of sensazione advocates, consciously sharpening your sensory awareness. And this becomes obviously more important as you get older. And what's the best, most beautiful way to do it is to appreciate nature and appreciate beauty. Go for a walk and have a theme of, what do I see? What are the colors I see today? Let's look at the different shades of green.

Make that the theme of my walk today. Or my walk today, my theme will be perspective or light and shadow. Or what sounds do I hear? Just listening to the sound of birdsong in a 20-minute walk significantly raises your immune system and your creative thinking. Taste the best the world has to offer and pay attention. And oh, here's a big secret too.

Make that the theme of my walk today. Or my walk today, my theme will be perspective or light and shadow. Or what sounds do I hear? Just listening to the sound of birdsong in a 20-minute walk significantly raises your immune system and your creative thinking. Taste the best the world has to offer and pay attention. And oh, here's a big secret too.

Make that the theme of my walk today. Or my walk today, my theme will be perspective or light and shadow. Or what sounds do I hear? Just listening to the sound of birdsong in a 20-minute walk significantly raises your immune system and your creative thinking. Taste the best the world has to offer and pay attention. And oh, here's a big secret too.

Instead of one dark chocolate, do a comparative tasting. Try an 80% cacao against 85%. or one from Madagascar against one from Venezuela, because your brain loves a theme. It loves to compare and contrast. And you'll notice sensory nuances in the chocolate that might have escaped you had you not compared. Then you can do the same thing with manet and monet, or a

Instead of one dark chocolate, do a comparative tasting. Try an 80% cacao against 85%. or one from Madagascar against one from Venezuela, because your brain loves a theme. It loves to compare and contrast. And you'll notice sensory nuances in the chocolate that might have escaped you had you not compared. Then you can do the same thing with manet and monet, or a

Instead of one dark chocolate, do a comparative tasting. Try an 80% cacao against 85%. or one from Madagascar against one from Venezuela, because your brain loves a theme. It loves to compare and contrast. And you'll notice sensory nuances in the chocolate that might have escaped you had you not compared. Then you can do the same thing with manet and monet, or a

different pieces by Bach or early Mozart, later Mozart, or Mozart 40th Symphony conducted by von Karajan versus Bernstein. It's amazing. Same music. It can even be the same orchestra, different conductor. You hear stuff that you never would have heard otherwise. So, And it's fun. And then you do this with other people and you say, well, what did you hear?

different pieces by Bach or early Mozart, later Mozart, or Mozart 40th Symphony conducted by von Karajan versus Bernstein. It's amazing. Same music. It can even be the same orchestra, different conductor. You hear stuff that you never would have heard otherwise. So, And it's fun. And then you do this with other people and you say, well, what did you hear?

different pieces by Bach or early Mozart, later Mozart, or Mozart 40th Symphony conducted by von Karajan versus Bernstein. It's amazing. Same music. It can even be the same orchestra, different conductor. You hear stuff that you never would have heard otherwise. So, And it's fun. And then you do this with other people and you say, well, what did you hear?

And here's the deal to make this most fun is no wrong answers. This is not music criticism or food criticism. This is sensazione enjoyment. Because there's no wrong answer to the question, what do you experience? And what's so cool is people, well, I do this with my corporate people. They don't think they know about wine. They put their nose in the glass.

And here's the deal to make this most fun is no wrong answers. This is not music criticism or food criticism. This is sensazione enjoyment. Because there's no wrong answer to the question, what do you experience? And what's so cool is people, well, I do this with my corporate people. They don't think they know about wine. They put their nose in the glass.

And here's the deal to make this most fun is no wrong answers. This is not music criticism or food criticism. This is sensazione enjoyment. Because there's no wrong answer to the question, what do you experience? And what's so cool is people, well, I do this with my corporate people. They don't think they know about wine. They put their nose in the glass.

People make jokes, oh, that smells like grapes, ha, ha, ha. But they get over their awkwardness and they get into it. And somebody says something like, I don't know, it kind of reminds me of biting into a really ripe plum while leaning back on a haystack on a really hot day. And somebody else goes, oh my God, that's just, let me taste that wine again, see if I can get that plum in that haystack.