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Michael Gelb

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
417 total appearances

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

You can go see it for free in Washington, D.C. So they're all indicative of this sense of just having the right amount of energy in the right place at the right time, which is one of the secrets of life. And it's an element that's often missed in a lot of physical training. You know, people go to the gym and they're trying to just push the most weight they can. They want to achieve the goal.

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

But you see these people, they're contorting themselves. They lose their form. I see runners, walkers everywhere. doing more hard to themselves than good because they've lost poise and grace in their movement. So I trained originally as an Alexander Technique teacher in London many years ago, which is a genius methodology for cultivating poise and grace in your everyday movement.

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

But you see these people, they're contorting themselves. They lose their form. I see runners, walkers everywhere. doing more hard to themselves than good because they've lost poise and grace in their movement. So I trained originally as an Alexander Technique teacher in London many years ago, which is a genius methodology for cultivating poise and grace in your everyday movement.

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

But you see these people, they're contorting themselves. They lose their form. I see runners, walkers everywhere. doing more hard to themselves than good because they've lost poise and grace in their movement. So I trained originally as an Alexander Technique teacher in London many years ago, which is a genius methodology for cultivating poise and grace in your everyday movement.

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

And Leonardo is one of the supreme examples of that quality.

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

And Leonardo is one of the supreme examples of that quality.

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

And Leonardo is one of the supreme examples of that quality.

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

Connezione. Connezione. Everything connects to everything else. Leonardo wrote that in his notebook. Everything connects to everything else. So today we would call that systems thinking. Looking at how things that you might not ordinarily think are related are actually related. Like how Julius Caesar is in your nose right now. Yeah.

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

Connezione. Connezione. Everything connects to everything else. Leonardo wrote that in his notebook. Everything connects to everything else. So today we would call that systems thinking. Looking at how things that you might not ordinarily think are related are actually related. Like how Julius Caesar is in your nose right now. Yeah.

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

Connezione. Connezione. Everything connects to everything else. Leonardo wrote that in his notebook. Everything connects to everything else. So today we would call that systems thinking. Looking at how things that you might not ordinarily think are related are actually related. Like how Julius Caesar is in your nose right now. Yeah.

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

So that ability to really see the big picture, to see how, to think things through, what are the potential unintended consequences, the negative on it. People call them side effects when it's a drug, but they're really effects. They're just effects. So what's the gestalt of this thing?

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

So that ability to really see the big picture, to see how, to think things through, what are the potential unintended consequences, the negative on it. People call them side effects when it's a drug, but they're really effects. They're just effects. So what's the gestalt of this thing?

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

So that ability to really see the big picture, to see how, to think things through, what are the potential unintended consequences, the negative on it. People call them side effects when it's a drug, but they're really effects. They're just effects. So what's the gestalt of this thing?

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

project we're doing what's of this product that we're launching of this plan i am making how do i see he's he guides us he asks us to do that and what i i guide people to try to do that with their own lives is just you know what's your purpose what are your values what are your goals and how do they all fit together And what are you actually doing every day?

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

project we're doing what's of this product that we're launching of this plan i am making how do i see he's he guides us he asks us to do that and what i i guide people to try to do that with their own lives is just you know what's your purpose what are your values what are your goals and how do they all fit together And what are you actually doing every day?

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

project we're doing what's of this product that we're launching of this plan i am making how do i see he's he guides us he asks us to do that and what i i guide people to try to do that with their own lives is just you know what's your purpose what are your values what are your goals and how do they all fit together And what are you actually doing every day?

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

And is what you're doing every day what's out of alignment with what you say your purpose, values, and goals are? And how can you make little shifts? I mean, I know you know this. Little shifts every day lead to really big shifts in a surprisingly short amount of time. But it helps to not just, all right, I'm going to get fit. And you just focus. No, why are you getting fit? How are you doing it?

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

And is what you're doing every day what's out of alignment with what you say your purpose, values, and goals are? And how can you make little shifts? I mean, I know you know this. Little shifts every day lead to really big shifts in a surprisingly short amount of time. But it helps to not just, all right, I'm going to get fit. And you just focus. No, why are you getting fit? How are you doing it?

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

And is what you're doing every day what's out of alignment with what you say your purpose, values, and goals are? And how can you make little shifts? I mean, I know you know this. Little shifts every day lead to really big shifts in a surprisingly short amount of time. But it helps to not just, all right, I'm going to get fit. And you just focus. No, why are you getting fit? How are you doing it?

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

When are you going to do it? Where are you going to do it? That fits in with the questions we laid out earlier. And asking those questions about every aspect of your life. And then you can take these and put them in one mind map and make symbols for each one and some keywords. Put that on your desk. I have mine right over there. I keep redoing it. I've been doing this for a really long time.