How to be a genius like Leonardo da Vinci
Albert Einstein and Sir Issac Newton also.
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How to be a genius like Leonardo da Vinci
Gain your knowledge through imitating others. The word “Imitation” will come more and more in this article.
So, let’s learn first what imitating is!
As follows In google search, the meaning of imitation is — “to copy the behavior of somebody/something”.
To copy somebody’s idea into your own creativity, or master many skills through copying the knowledge and wisdom of the most skilled person.
As we birth, we are so dumb, that we don’t know anything or anyone. We gradually learned from our parents, society, and surroundings.
We are the outcome of some of the environments we leave or experience. These work for the online world also.
Most knowledgeable persons imitate their heroes or one who is best in that field.
We all admire, respect, and learn from, the people we want to look, live and think like them.
Mohammad Ali imitates their heroes, but with little change. He can’t create or copy their moves, so he recreates their own moves, with certain ideas from their master.
We almost live like the person whom we want to be like. It’s a matter of fact that, you made some changes, which would be your own style.
The books, online articles, movies, or artworks allow us and grant us to learn from your hero, whom you want to imitate.
Just modify in somebody’s idea or thought process, can originate creativity.
People get wrong on, from imitating someone. Imitation doesn’t mean only copying, it applies to your life, in the right way, in your life.
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. — Albert Schweitzer
Austin Kleon writes remarkable observations, and thoughts about creativity, in their book “ Steal like an artist”.
He wrote about creativity, imitating others, and creating your own family tree of knowledge in their book.
He also wrote another book, compiling the newspaper in a beautiful and blackout manner. After the book came, people told them that he copy from others and he also talks about how “nothing is original”, by explaining the ancient use of the formatting of the book he wrote, in his TEDx talk.
Leon Battista Alberti is the role model of Leonardo da Vinci, who was also an architect, engineer, mathematician, painter, philosopher, athlete, and an excellent musician.
Vinci imitates their heroes and executes them in their own lives and we called Vinci original. After all, Vinci was the legend of legends, and did tons of work, that I could possibly imagine.
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📕 Book of The week
Still reading Leaders eat last By Simon Sinek
I am still reading this masterpiece, taking my time to understand it. I am listening to an autobiography on audible called My experiment with truth by Mahatma Gandhi
🗨️Quote worth sharing
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”– Mark Twain
🖼️ Picture worth sharing
This picture explains the business model of Disney thinks by its founder. But it went ahead and did lots of things
Worth exploring
1. Watch
The Taoists observed that humans tend to act in ways that are counterproductive. And in their attempts to alter the natural way, they only make things worse. All these strivings, rules, ethics, values, surely are invented to benefit humanity. But according to the ancient Taoist sages, we should get rid of them all.
Dalai Lama is a unique person like his routine.
2. Read
28 Actionable Productivity hacks for students To Elevate their Future
Many students didn’t get interested to study and consider it a boring thing to do. But certain things will motivate you to study smartly and enjoy your study throughout the day.
Revisiting “The 4-Hour Workweek”
Given the book’s history and reception, you might assume that “The 4-Hour Workweek” would have become a popular guide for our current moment, in which the pandemic-induced Great Resignation is driving knowledge workers to ask themselves similar questions.
3. Listen
Discussing “The 4-hour workweek” book.
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