Think Like Da Vinci: 7 Easy Steps to Boosting Your Everyday Genius
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Michael Gelb. Think Like Da Vinci: 7 Easy Steps to Boosting Your Everyday Genius
THINK LIKE DA VINCI
MICHAEL GELB
Dedication
Contents
Preface: “Born of the Sun”
Preface to the New Edition
Introduction Your Brain Is Much Better than You Think
LEARNING FROM LEONARDO
A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO GENIUS
The Renaissance, Then and Now
THE MODERN RENAISSANCE MAN OR WOMAN
The Life of Leonardo da Vinci
MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Anatomy
Botany
Geology and Physics
CuriositàAn Insatiably Curious Approach to Life and an Unrelenting Quest for Continuous Learning
CURIOSITÀ AND YOU
Curiosità: Self-Assessment
CURIOSITÀ: APPLICATION AND EXERCISES. KEEP A JOURNAL OR “NOTEBOOK”
A Hundred Questions
Top Ten Questions
Ten Power Questions
How Does a Bird Fly?
THEME OBSERVATION
CONTEMPLATION EXERCISE
A Sample Theme Exercise
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS EXERCISE
CURIOSITÀ AND CREATIVE. PROBLEM SOLVING
FINDING THE QUESTION
CURIOSITÀ AND CONTINUOUS LEARNING
CURIOSITÀ AT WORK
REALIZE YOUR IDEAL HOBBY
CURIOSITÀ FOR PARENTS
LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE
BUILD YOUR OWN LEXICON
NURTURE YOUR “EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE”
DimostrazioneA Commitment to Test Knowledge through Experience, Persistence, and a Willingness to Learn from Mistakes
DIMOSTRAZIONE AND YOU
Dimostrazione: Self-Assessment
DIMOSTRAZIONE: APPLICATION AND EXERCISES. EXAMINE EXPERIENCE
CHECK YOUR BELIEFS AND SOURCES
Human Nature
THREE POINTS OF VIEW
PRACTICE INTERNAL. ANTICOMMERCIAL MARTIAL ARTS
LEARN FROM MISTAKES AND. ADVERSITY
CREATE AFFIRMATIONS
Relationships
Spirituality
Money
Learning
Career
Joy of Life
Self-actualization
DIMOSTRAZIONE FOR PARENTS
LEARN FROM “ANTI-ROLE MODELS”
DIMOSTRAZIONE AT WORK
SensazioneThe Continual Refinement of the Senses, Especially Sight, as the Means to Enliven Experience
SENSAZIONE AND YOU
Sensazione:Self-Assessment – Vision
Sensazione:Self-Assessment – Hearing
Sensazione: Self-Assessment – Smell
Sensazione:Self-Assessment – Touch
Sensazione:Self-Assessment – Taste
Sensazione:Self-Assessment – Synesthesia
SENSAZIONE: APPLICATION AND EXERCISES. VISION: LOOKING AND SEEING
The Eye-palming Exercise
Focus Near and Far
“Soft Eyes”
Describe a Sunrise or Sunset
Study the Lives and Work of Your Favorite Artists
Make the Most of Museums
Practice “Subtle Speculation”: The Art of Visualization
Picture Your Favorite Scene
Create Your Own Internal Masterpiece Theater
Learn to Draw
LISTENING AND HEARING
Layered Listening
Listen for Silence
Practice Silence
Study the Lives and Work of Your Favorite. Composers and Musical Artists
Learn the Major Movements of Western Music
Study Great Music from the Classical Canon
1. Bach: Mass in B Minor
“ALL-STAR” LIST MAKING
2. Beethoven: Symphony #9
3. Mozart: Requiem
4. Chopin: Nocturnes
5. Brahms: German Requiem
6. Mahler: Symphony #6
7. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
8. Debussy: Preludes
9. Stravinsky: “The Rite of Spring”
10. (tie) Verdi: Aida and Puccini: La Bohème
DEVELOP ACTIVE LISTENING
American Popular Song
Jazz
Orchestrate Your Life
AROMATIC AWARENESS
What Do You Smell Right Now?
Make “Smells” a Theme for a Day
Olfactory Cornucopia
Make Your Own Perfume
Study Aromatherapy
TASTE
Develop Comparative Tasting
Explore Wine Tasting
TOUCHING AND FEELING
Touch Like an Angel
Blindfold Touch
Touch Nature
Make “Touch” a Theme for the Day
SYNESTHESIA
Draw Music
Make Sounds of Color
Shape the Invisible
Make Transpositions
Engage in Synesthetic Problem-Solving
Make Synesthetic Minestrone
Ingredients:
SENSAZIONE FOR PARENTS
Create Your Own Equivalent to the Maestro’s Studio
SENSAZIONE AT WORK
Sfumato(Literally “Going up in Smoke”) A Willingness to Enbrace Ambiguity, Paradox, and Uncertainty
SFUMATO AND YOU
Sfumato: Self-Assessment
SFUMATO: APPLICATION AND EXERCISES. CURIOSITÀ EQUALS UNCERTAINTY
MAKE FRIENDS WITH AMBIGUITY
Observe Anxiety
Monitor Intolerance for Ambiguity
CULTIVATE CONFUSION ENDURANCE
MEDITATE ON MONA
EMBODY MONA’S SMILE
INCUBATION AND INTUITION
SFUMATO FOR PARENTS
TAKE TIME FOR SOLITUDE AND. RELAXATION
“TAKE A LITTLE RELAXATION”
TRUST YOUR GUT
SFUMATO AT WORK
Arte/ScienzaThe Development of the Balance between Science and Art, Logic and Imagination. “Whole- Brain” Thinking
THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST IN LEONARDO’S TIME
ARTE/SCIENZA AND YOU
ARTE/SCIENZA AT WORK
Arte/Scienza:Self-Assessment
ARTE/SCIENZA: APPLICATIONS AND EXERCISES. LEARN THE RULES OF MIND MAPPING
1) Begin your mind map with a symbol or a picture (representing your topic) at the center of your page
2) Write down key words
3) Connect the key words with lines radiating from your central image
4) Print your key words
5) Print one key word per line
6) Print your key words on the lines and make the length of the word the same as the line it is on
7) Use colors, pictures, dimension, and codes for greater association and emphasis
MAKE YOUR OWN MIND MAP
1) Begin with a large sheet of blank white paper and six or more colored pens. You may want to use phosphorescent highlighters for extra color. Of course, one pen or pencil and a small sheet of paper will work in a pinch
2) Let’s say that the topic for this mind map is the. Renaissance
3) Now print key words or draw images on lines radiating out from your central image. (Remember to print on the lines, one key word or image per line, and keep the lines connected.)
4) When you feel you have generated enough material through free association, look at the result: all your ideas spread across one page
5) Connect related parts of your mind map with. arrows, codes, and colors
PRACTICE YOUR MIND-MAPPING SKILLS
MAKE A MIND-MAPPING MIND MAP
MAKE A MEMORY MIND MAP
MAKE A CREATIVITY MIND MAP
ARTE/SCIENZA FOR PARENTS
CorporalitaThe Cultivationof Grace, Ambidexterity, Fitness, and Poise
CORPORALITA AND YOU
Corporalita:Self-Assessment
CORPORALITA: APPLICATION AND EXERCISES. DEVELOP A FITNESS PROGRAM
“COMPENSATORY MALADJUSTMENTS”
DEVELOP BODY AWARENESS BY STUDYING PRACTICAL ANATOMY
The Da Vinci Diet
Mirror Observation
Make a Drawing of Your Own Body
Explore Your Body Map
Know Your Spine
Heavy Thoughts
Experience the Evolution of the Upright Posture
RELEARN POISE: STUDY THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
ALEXANDER AND SAPER VEDERE
Foster the Balanced Resting State
CORPORALITA FOR PARENTS
CULTIVATE AMBIDEXTERITY
THE VISIBLE EXPRESSION OF GRACE
LEARN TO JUGGLE
CORPORALITA AT WORK
ConnessioneA Recognition of and Appreciation for the Interconnectedness of all Things and Phenomena. Systems Thinking
LEONARDO AND EASTERN PHILOSOPHY
CONNESSIONE AND YOU
Connessione: Self-Assessment
CONNESSIONE: APPLICATION AND EXERCISES. CONTEMPLATE WHOLENESS
FAMILY DYNAMICS
CONNESSIONE AT WORK
MAKE DRAGONS
IMAGINARY DIALOGUES
GOING TO EXTREMES TO MAKE CONNECTIONS
ORIGIN-ALL THINKING
MICROCOSM/MACROCOSM. CONTEMPLATION
CONNESSIONE MEDITATION
CONNESSIONE FOR PARENTS
TIME LINE – RIVER OF LIFE
“THINK WELL TO THE END”
MAKE A MASTER MIND MAP OF YOUR LIFE
Day One: Sketch the Big Picture of Your Dreams
Day Two: Explore Your Goals
Day Three: Clarify Your Core Values
Day Four: Contemplate Your Purpose
LEONARDO’S VALUES AND ADVICE FOR LIVING
Day Five: Assess Current Reality
Day Six: Look for Connections
Day Seven: Strategize for Change
Da Vinci Review
Fix Your Course to a Star
ConclusionLeonardo’s Legacy
The Beginner’s Da Vinci Drawing Course
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Paper
Drawing Implements
Undrawing Implements
Guides
PREPARATION. CREATING A BRAIN-NOURISHING ENVIRONMENT
DRAWING WITH THE BODY/MIND
Warm-up 1: Whole-Body Rainbows
Warm-up 2: Self-massage
Warm-up 3: Scribble
ACTUAL DRAWING. A SIMPLE STARTING POINT: PATTERNS WE KNOW
NEW WAYS OF SEEING
Seeing Exercise 1: Upside-down Drawing
Seeing Exercise 2: Opposite-handed Drawing
Seeing Exercise 3: Light and Dark
Seeing Exercise 4: Kaleidoscopic Configurations
Seeing Exercise 5: The Artist’s Frame
Seeing Exercise 6: Editing and Magnetizing
CONTOURS: OUTSIDE-IN DRAWING
Contour Exercise 1: Touch-drawing
The Rules Are:
Contour Exercise 2: Remember Your Hand?
Contour Exercise 3: Touch-draw Your Hand
Contour Exercise 4: Hand Contour
DRAWING MOVEMENT
Movement Exercise 1: Falling Objects
Movement Exercise 2: Still Movement
Movement Exercise 3: Motion in People
SHADING & “MASSING”: INSIDE-OUT SUBSTANCE
Shading Exercise 1: Light on a Sphere
Shading Exercise 2: Apple in the Sun
Shading Exercise 4: Value Chart
Shading Exercise 5: Sphere Values
Shading Exercise 6: More Fruit
MASSING YOUR FORCES
Mass Exercise 1: Very Red Apple
Mass Exercise 2: Sculpting
Mass Exercise 3: Anatomy of an Apple
PERSPECTIVE
Perspective Exercise 1: Distant Horizons
Perspective Exercise 2: Overlap
Perspective Exercise 3: My Paper’s in the Way of My Subject
Perspective Exercise 4: Small – Far … Big – Near
Perspective Exercise 5: Horizon – Eye Level
Perspective Exercise 6: Vanishing Point
Perspective Exercise 7: A Square on Perspective
Perspective Exercise 8: An Interesting Street
Perspective Exercise 9: Landscape
DRAWING BY HEART. Heart Drawing Exercise 1: Face Memory – You
Heart Drawing Exercise 2: Face Memory – a Friend
Heart Drawing Exercise 3: A Nose for Study
Heart Drawing Exercise 4: Face Study
Heart Drawing Exercise 5: Self Study
LEONARDO DA VINCI CHRONOLOGY: LIFE AND TIMES
Recommended Reading. CURIOSITÀ
DIMOSTRAZIONE
SENSAZIONE
SFUMATO
ARTE/SCIENZA
CORPORALITA
CONNESSIONE
THE BEGINNER’S DA VINCI DRAWING COURSE
THE RENAISSANCE AND THE HISTORY OF ART AND IDEAS
LEONARDO DA VINCI
THE NATURE OF INTELLIGENCES AND GENIUS
List of Illustrations. PART ONE. Introduction
The Renaissance, Then and Now
The Life of Leonardo da Vinci
PART TWO. Curiosità
Sfumato
Arte/Scienza
Corporalita
Connessione
Conclusion: Leonardo’s Legacy
PART THREE
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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7 EASY STEPS TO BOOSTING YOUR EVERYDAY GENIUS
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For balance and creativity to emerge from uncertainty requires principle number five – Arte/Scienza – or what we now call whole-brain thinking. But Da Vinci believed that balance was more than just mental. He exemplified and affirmed the importance of principle number six – Corporalita – the balance of body and mind. And if you appreciate patterns, relationships, connections, and systems – if you seek to understand how your dreams, goals, values, and highest aspirations can be integrated into your daily life – then you are already applying principle number seven: Connessione. Connessione ties everything together.
“We respect him by learning from him.”
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