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Michael Gelb

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Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

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.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

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.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

And all of a sudden, you're not just learning about the wine, you're learning about the person. And you're connecting with the poetic soul and the poetic consciousness, the nonlinear way of being in the world, which is art, joy, beauty. So, If we want more of that in our lives, we sharpen our senses. Not to mention the fact that, look, my patrons are businesses.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

And all of a sudden, you're not just learning about the wine, you're learning about the person. And you're connecting with the poetic soul and the poetic consciousness, the nonlinear way of being in the world, which is art, joy, beauty. So, If we want more of that in our lives, we sharpen our senses. Not to mention the fact that, look, my patrons are businesses.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

And all of a sudden, you're not just learning about the wine, you're learning about the person. And you're connecting with the poetic soul and the poetic consciousness, the nonlinear way of being in the world, which is art, joy, beauty. So, If we want more of that in our lives, we sharpen our senses. Not to mention the fact that, look, my patrons are businesses.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

So they need to be sharper than their competition. That means they're better at seeing what's going on. They're reading the body language of the person in the meeting. They are listening to the voice tone and noticing if there's a disconnect between the words the person's saying, the body language, and the voice tonality.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

So they need to be sharper than their competition. That means they're better at seeing what's going on. They're reading the body language of the person in the meeting. They are listening to the voice tone and noticing if there's a disconnect between the words the person's saying, the body language, and the voice tonality.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

So they need to be sharper than their competition. That means they're better at seeing what's going on. They're reading the body language of the person in the meeting. They are listening to the voice tone and noticing if there's a disconnect between the words the person's saying, the body language, and the voice tonality.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

And then they'll use their curiosità to ask some more challenging questions so that they can fire up their dimostrazioni and get to the bottom of the situation. So the opposite of being sharp is being dull, and it's a sensory term.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

And then they'll use their curiosità to ask some more challenging questions so that they can fire up their dimostrazioni and get to the bottom of the situation. So the opposite of being sharp is being dull, and it's a sensory term.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

And then they'll use their curiosità to ask some more challenging questions so that they can fire up their dimostrazioni and get to the bottom of the situation. So the opposite of being sharp is being dull, and it's a sensory term.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

Okay. The next is sfumato. So sfumato is a term coined by art critics to refer to the hazy, mysterious quality in Leonardo da Vinci's paintings. And what it refers to is maybe the most distinguishing characteristic of highly creative people. which is our ability to embrace the unknown.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

Okay. The next is sfumato. So sfumato is a term coined by art critics to refer to the hazy, mysterious quality in Leonardo da Vinci's paintings. And what it refers to is maybe the most distinguishing characteristic of highly creative people. which is our ability to embrace the unknown.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

Okay. The next is sfumato. So sfumato is a term coined by art critics to refer to the hazy, mysterious quality in Leonardo da Vinci's paintings. And what it refers to is maybe the most distinguishing characteristic of highly creative people. which is our ability to embrace the unknown.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

So everybody rushes to see the Mona Lisa, and rightfully so, because she's the most renowned, famous work of art in human history, the most recognized symbol or icon or image on the planet. But on your way in to see her, a lot of people walk right by the St. John. And the St. John in the book is actually the symbol of sfumato,

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

So everybody rushes to see the Mona Lisa, and rightfully so, because she's the most renowned, famous work of art in human history, the most recognized symbol or icon or image on the planet. But on your way in to see her, a lot of people walk right by the St. John. And the St. John in the book is actually the symbol of sfumato,

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

So everybody rushes to see the Mona Lisa, and rightfully so, because she's the most renowned, famous work of art in human history, the most recognized symbol or icon or image on the planet. But on your way in to see her, a lot of people walk right by the St. John. And the St. John in the book is actually the symbol of sfumato,

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

because he's got his hand on his heart, he's pointing up to heaven, he's got a funky head tilt and smile, and so he's saying, when things are really tricky and uncertain, use your emotional intelligence, consider what your higher principles are, and keep your sense of humor. So... Leonardo pioneered this technique, which they call svamato, where why is the Mona Lisa considered to be so amazing?

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

because he's got his hand on his heart, he's pointing up to heaven, he's got a funky head tilt and smile, and so he's saying, when things are really tricky and uncertain, use your emotional intelligence, consider what your higher principles are, and keep your sense of humor. So... Leonardo pioneered this technique, which they call svamato, where why is the Mona Lisa considered to be so amazing?

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

because he's got his hand on his heart, he's pointing up to heaven, he's got a funky head tilt and smile, and so he's saying, when things are really tricky and uncertain, use your emotional intelligence, consider what your higher principles are, and keep your sense of humor. So... Leonardo pioneered this technique, which they call svamato, where why is the Mona Lisa considered to be so amazing?