Great entry. Thanks for sharing!
I enjoyed this read, great share thank you!
Excellent stuff, thanks for sharing. I am curently reading Da Vinci Code, learning some good stuff that never knew. Anna 
Amazing stuff. Great distillation, and a system that's easy to get your head around without being dumbed down.
Thanks!
-LaSara
http://www.lasarafirefox.com
well researched, well written, thought provoking. I wonder what Leonardo would make of the world we have created?
In reference to 5 and 6; in my own experiences, I've found that my mind gets cloudy during high stress seasons. These seasons, for me, are when my company has to produce with a deadline. As an artist who has to analytically strategize marketing projects, it is vital for my brain to work as one unit.
Keeping a high fiber diet with fresh, living foods along with high water intake keeps my insides clean. In laymen terms; I can't think straight when I'm full of sh*t.
Colon cleansing, detoxing and flushing clears accumulated waste from your intestines, organs and bloodstream. Toxins do affect your brains ability to operate sufficiently.
I've had the most wondrous psychological awakenings during my first few cleansings back in 2005. My diet consists of fresh fruits, grains, turkey and fish. I consume a case a water a week ( 18-24 / 16-20 oz. bottles - yes, I recycle)
Clean pipes make you think right. Try it for yourself. Your body, mind and soul will thank you for it. Da Vinci was definitely on to a powerful truth.
What a great piece - and coincidentally How To Think Like Da Vinci author Michael Gelb will be on Business Matters! Radio Tuesday Nov 25th at 2pm EST http://is.gd/8C8M (not my show so no spammin here - just FYI ya'll!)
thank you alisa for introducing me to the book
I can't figure out how to trackback to this great post(and quite frankly I'm feeling rather stupid about it) but here you are, I linked to you: http://is.gd/8JsM
Many people have the knowledge to live a life of purpose every day.. but how many know they have it? -me
nice post..
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well leonardo holds a special place in my imagination - he dreamed beyond himself and was able to suspend his mind - and enter into and become the things he was studying and interested in - to me genius is somebody who is interested in what they are doing and become a vacuum cleaner for everything about it in-sight and insightful - he as you say studied art like a science and science like an art - he is responsible for more mechanical inventions then we can imagine - especially buidling and farm machinery - i saw an exhibit of leonardos farm inventions in venice years ago and also in the world trade center there was another exhibit of his inventions and went to a talk on leonardo by the well known artist Mark di Suvero who's father was a leonardo da vinci expert - and he talked about how leonardo invented modern day cranes - before leonardo they would build up and take down a crane every time they had to change the angle - leonardo came and saw that you could sandwich ball bearings between metal plates and it would rotate - and that is one example - leonardo also wrote in such a way that you had to streetch your mind to read it - i have a book of leonardos paint formulas that i studied and was amazed at how he was able to get inside the paint in addition to painting the most well known questioning smile in the world - if you look at some of his other paintings around that time you can see that mona lisa was part of a study he was exploring about the expressions of the lips - most people look at the eyes as the most reflective - so i think leonardo not only had all the above 7 things mentioned in your blog post - i wonder about his social consciousness and maybe if we relook at his paintings we will see that they are more social commentary about humanity and the state of the world around him - on how to think like leonardo one aspect is to suspend your mind and creativity is having an open mind - its interesting that the first thing on the list is curiosity - in addition to filming scientist and artist at play for a doc called playing with science http://PlayingWithScience.com for last 7 years often in the basement of a nyc cafe - cornelia street cafe on the first sunday of the month curated by noble prize winner and poet/playwrite roald hoffman and co-founded by oliver sacks were we explore the imagination of science and art around the theme of science - and having another web site curiosityitis.com which is a work in progress for those of us who suffer from too much curiosity - and in a film conversation with the father of fractals benoit mandelbrot in a snow storm i asked him what his relationship to curiosity is and he said "i fight curiosity" which i thought was an interesting food for thought - so i leave you with the thought - the art of living is making your life an art and i think the master of that was leonardo da vinci
there is more to this then meets the eye
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