How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci Seven Steps to Genius Every Day Mantesh

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61lK4Ph1eWL._SS500_.jpg How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day Random House Audio Michael J. Gelb English 2003-12-30 ISBN: 0739310445 2 Hours 28 Minutes 55 Second MP3 64 Kbps 68.1 MB You don't have to be a genius to think like one. Each of us uses only a fraction of our brain power, explains Michael J. Gelb, who has helped thousands of men and women learn to put more of their minds to work--and play--than they ever thought possible. Drawing on Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks, inventions, and legendary works of art, Gelb introduces the Seven Da Vincian Principles--seven essential elements of genius, named in Da Vinci's native Italian, that any of us can develop on our own. From the notebooks' celebration of an insatiably curious approach to life (curiositá) to the willingness to embrace uncertainty and paradox (sfumato) embodied in Mona Lisa's smile, these principles will seem at once intuitively familiar and surprisingly powerful. Offering an abundance of interactive, entertaining exercises to help you master each principle, Gelb also helps you see how you can use them at work, home, and everywhere else. Following Leonardo's lead, you'll learn powerful new strategies for tackling challenges both timely and timeless, including problem solving; creative thinking; self-expression; enjoying the world around you; goal setting and life balancing; and harmonizing body and mind. "I wish to work miracles," wrote the young Leonardo. As you apply these principles to liberate your own unique intelligence, you may feel his miraculous tough enriching your life across the centuries, as you let his ageless example guide you toward becoming more of who you truly are...

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Dellamortedellamre (2011-02-20)

Downloading now will listen and update.

entity_0 (2011-02-24)

It was nothing special.
It starts off with a cheesy inspirational "your brain is an amazing thing and you can do great things in your life" spiel. Then a summary of da Vinci's life (a glance through Wikipedia would provide the same info).
Then the 7 steps and exercises. Some of the exercises are pretty useful and they're arguably the best part of the book. Exercises include: keep a personal journal full of your questions and musings, embrace curiosity, ask questions about your own questions, practise stream-of-conciousness writing, question yours' and others' opinions, try making the strongest possible argument against your beliefs, layered listening, enjoying touch/smell/and auditory experiences, embracing ambiguity, and mind-mapping.
It ends with a rather bland and detailed plan on making 'mind maps'.
Overall, I doubt that the author's inspiration really was da Vinci -- you could replace 'da Vinci' in the title with Einstein, Socrates, Descartes, or any other great thinker and the content would have stayed exactly the same.

nondaras (2011-03-12)

THANKS

Swirl78 (2011-04-14)

@ Entity:0
Thanks for the review. It was helpful.
As always, thanx for the ul Mantesh!

anterior2dasuperior (2013-06-04)

Wow, entity o, I could not disagree more with what you said. Maybe because I have read the actual book and you listened to the audio has given you a negative impression of this book, but I got this book in 2003 when it came out. From your comments, I seriously question if you even listened to 1/4 of the book.
entity o, you said "It was nothing special"-well there hasn't been a book written like this ever, ever. Maybe you don't have the intellectual capacity or maybe you're not open minded to growth and understanding the brains almost unlimited power. Maybe you're the type of person that is resistant to expanding your mind and soul in many ways, I don't know but if you are resistant to these things than I could see you saying that this book wasn't special.
You also said, "Overall, I doubt that the author's inspiration really was da Vinci" and
"you could replace 'da Vinci' in the title with Einstein, Socrates, Descartes, or any other great thinker and the content would have stayed exactly the same."
It was these two comments that really has me doubting whether you read this book, or rather listened to it. This book could only have been written with Da Vinci as the inspiration because he used Da Vinci's approach to life to write the entire thing and to try and get people to understand and/or use his principles to impact their life and bring about talents in them that they didn't know existed and to get people to see the world through the eyes of Da Vinci. No one else in the history of man, to our knowledge, has lived life the way Da Vinci did and accomplished as many things as he did during his time and the crazy thing is that Da Vinci recorded so many things in his journals which still live today and that is part of the inspiration of this book.
The book sets as a template the 7 areas of genius, for example: Mozart was a genius in music, Shakespeare was a genius with verbal-linguistic, mathematical would be Einstein and Newton, Socrates would probably fit into Interpersonal/Social/Philosophic as the Socratic Method is rooted in this area. These people were geniuses in just one area, only one. It is a dominating consensus with scholars world wide that Da Vinci was a genius in all 7 areas of genius and since the written recorded word he has been the only person to be so. And since he has been the only person to be a genius in all of these areas it would be impossible to write this book based on Einstein or Socrates or Descartes or any other great thinker like you said. See Leo was a great thinker like the 3 you mentioned, but Leo Da Vinci actually invented many many things and set templates that allowed so many people to follow to also create things, Da Vinci thought like Socrates but that was just 1% of what made Da Vinci great. The people you mentioned stopped there at their thinking and have some minor contributions to niche fields whereas Da Vinci's contributions span through every subject and area in life. This book isn't about thinking its about adapting your life to approach it like Da Vinci because he also had his own 7 areas of approaching life and Socrates didn't have these areas nor did Einstein.
This book tries to dispel the belief that IQ is fixed at birth, which it isn't. The book is about just opening a window into the life of the most brilliant man to ever live and about simply becoming the best person you can be, not about mastering one area of genius like Socrates or Einstein. This book doesn't demand the reader to adapt a different way of living but just to expose them into opening up their mind to understanding our brains full potential and that Da Vinci, out of anyone ever on the planet, challenged himself the most on a day to day basis and was constantly growing and learning and embracing life like no other and we see that through his writings, his journals, his inventions, his art work, his architectural work, his engineering work especially in the military, his scientific contributions especially in anatomy, botany, physics, and geology. Do you know that Da Vinci back in th