Michael Gelb
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He taught it to me when I was writing my master's thesis in London, and it transformed my experience of writing. My master's thesis became my first book, and that's how I became an author. So it's a methodology for integrating art and science, artesiense. It's a really simple, elegant, practical way to think like Leonardo.
He taught it to me when I was writing my master's thesis in London, and it transformed my experience of writing. My master's thesis became my first book, and that's how I became an author. So it's a methodology for integrating art and science, artesiense. It's a really simple, elegant, practical way to think like Leonardo.
But my guidance for everybody is learn at first the old-fashioned way with actual colored pens and big sheets of paper before you do it on your computer. It's great to do it on your computer. It's amazing the programs that have come out, a lot of free, great ones. But learn it the artisanal, old-fashioned way because when you draw – It activates circuitry in your brain.
But my guidance for everybody is learn at first the old-fashioned way with actual colored pens and big sheets of paper before you do it on your computer. It's great to do it on your computer. It's amazing the programs that have come out, a lot of free, great ones. But learn it the artisanal, old-fashioned way because when you draw – It activates circuitry in your brain.
But my guidance for everybody is learn at first the old-fashioned way with actual colored pens and big sheets of paper before you do it on your computer. It's great to do it on your computer. It's amazing the programs that have come out, a lot of free, great ones. But learn it the artisanal, old-fashioned way because when you draw – It activates circuitry in your brain.
You want some serious neuroplasticity? Get the colored pens, make some mind maps, and you will be thinking like Leonardo da Vinci.
You want some serious neuroplasticity? Get the colored pens, make some mind maps, and you will be thinking like Leonardo da Vinci.
You want some serious neuroplasticity? Get the colored pens, make some mind maps, and you will be thinking like Leonardo da Vinci.
Well, really learning and practicing mind mapping is the go-to most practical way to really do it because then you can learn to make mind maps of your plan for the day. You can plan a dinner party. The last exercise in the book is a mind map of all your life goals, dreams, visions, values, your different areas of life.
Well, really learning and practicing mind mapping is the go-to most practical way to really do it because then you can learn to make mind maps of your plan for the day. You can plan a dinner party. The last exercise in the book is a mind map of all your life goals, dreams, visions, values, your different areas of life.
Well, really learning and practicing mind mapping is the go-to most practical way to really do it because then you can learn to make mind maps of your plan for the day. You can plan a dinner party. The last exercise in the book is a mind map of all your life goals, dreams, visions, values, your different areas of life.
And then you get to look at them and see the gestalt of it all while you also get more detail because you put in key words. You print those keywords so they're easy to read, and you draw images or creative doodles that go with them so you're stimulating the imaginative part of your mind and the detailed, focused, analytical part of your mind simultaneously.
And then you get to look at them and see the gestalt of it all while you also get more detail because you put in key words. You print those keywords so they're easy to read, and you draw images or creative doodles that go with them so you're stimulating the imaginative part of your mind and the detailed, focused, analytical part of your mind simultaneously.
And then you get to look at them and see the gestalt of it all while you also get more detail because you put in key words. You print those keywords so they're easy to read, and you draw images or creative doodles that go with them so you're stimulating the imaginative part of your mind and the detailed, focused, analytical part of your mind simultaneously.
So you get a huge amount of information in a very small space. And it's fun. It's fun.
So you get a huge amount of information in a very small space. And it's fun. It's fun.
So you get a huge amount of information in a very small space. And it's fun. It's fun.
Okay. Next up. Next. Corporalità. corporalita, balance the body and the mind. So we all know that Leonardo was an artistic genius. Many people know he was also a scientific genius, great inventive genius, but he was also physically gifted. He was renowned as the strongest man in Florence. He was a master equestrian, a fencer, a
Okay. Next up. Next. Corporalità. corporalita, balance the body and the mind. So we all know that Leonardo was an artistic genius. Many people know he was also a scientific genius, great inventive genius, but he was also physically gifted. He was renowned as the strongest man in Florence. He was a master equestrian, a fencer, a
Okay. Next up. Next. Corporalità. corporalita, balance the body and the mind. So we all know that Leonardo was an artistic genius. Many people know he was also a scientific genius, great inventive genius, but he was also physically gifted. He was renowned as the strongest man in Florence. He was a master equestrian, a fencer, a