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Michael Gelb

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think 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.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think 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.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think 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.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think 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.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think 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.

Modern Wisdom
#876 - Michael Gelb - How To Think 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

So you get a huge amount of information in a very small space. And it's fun. It's fun.

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

So you get a huge amount of information in a very small space. And it's fun. It's fun.

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

So you get a huge amount of information in a very small space. And it's fun. It's fun.

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

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

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

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

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

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