How to Think Like Da Vinci

Michael J. Gelb’s bestseller “How to think like Leonardo da Vinci” teaches some excises to explore the full capacity of our brain. It includes the seven principles namely curiosita, dimostrazione, sensazione, sfumato, arte/scienza, corporalita and connesione. The main purpose of all these principles does not only develop the intellectual side of a person but the holistic side as well. For example, arte/scienza is the development of the balance of science and art, logic and imagination. Studies show that creative or imaginative people utilize more of the right side of their brain, thus often referred to as right-brainers. Whereas those people relying mostly on their logical and scientific reasoning are referred to as left-brainers. As explained by the author, the balance of the both left and right brain could be developed using “mind-mapping method”. Mind mapping encourages spreading the ideas one-by-one graphically so that scattered thoughts would later be corrected. This method helps one to be a balanced thinker because it draws out not only the person’s creative strengths but the analytical abilities as well. Arte/scienza is thus called the “whole-brain” thinking.

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Evolution of Books

As man evolved from apes, books also come from something else.

Books were invented for one to transmit and conserve important information. History shows that before the existence of books, there were other means of preserving information.  In China fro example, they use brushes for writing and silk as a base instead of paper. Other materials uses as bases were bones, bronze, pottery, shells, dried leaves, etc. And the very first medium of writing as resemblance to books was a piece of wood.

In the ancient Iraq (former Mesopotamia), they use clay tablets, where preserved information were printed on its surface while it was first moist.

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Enjoy Pain

Enjoying life can be a little tricky depending on personal views of what life is all about.
We often claim life to be enjoyable only at times we experience spectacular moments. We appreciate life at times we come to visit beautiful places. When we the see magnificent view of Niagara Falls, the Grand Cannon, or even in the local sunset of Manila Bay, we exclaim “What a wonderful World!”

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