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Notes For Da Vincian Principles PDF

This document discusses various concepts from Da Vinci's notebooks related to cultivating curiosity, questioning assumptions, embracing uncertainty, and developing a balanced "whole brain" approach. It encourages activities like keeping a journal, asking "what if" and "how come" questions, testing ideas through experiments, honing observation skills, mind mapping, and maintaining physical well-being. The overall message is that Da Vinci's insatiably curious and interdisciplinary approach can help people refine their thinking.

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Notes For Da Vincian Principles PDF

This document discusses various concepts from Da Vinci's notebooks related to cultivating curiosity, questioning assumptions, embracing uncertainty, and developing a balanced "whole brain" approach. It encourages activities like keeping a journal, asking "what if" and "how come" questions, testing ideas through experiments, honing observation skills, mind mapping, and maintaining physical well-being. The overall message is that Da Vinci's insatiably curious and interdisciplinary approach can help people refine their thinking.

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Curiosita

■ Or curiosity, marking his


insatiable quest for
knowledge and continuous
development.
■ Example: asking questions,
seeking information, reading
and researching, lifelong
learning.
❖Keep a journal or notebook
Two basic questions to ask
■ What if?
➢ Asks your brain to project into the future
➢ Helps you see opportunities where you might
have missed them
➢ Gets your brain more goal oriented
■ How come?
➢ Helps you question both your actions and
other’s motives, thus making you more honest
and alert
➢ Helps you live more purposefully
Dimostrazione
■ Or demonstration, testing knowledge through personal
experience, instead of taking for granted the works of
others (proxy experience)
■ Example: scientific experimentation; learning by trial and
error; check beliefs and sources, examine experience
Dimostrazione tells us to
■ Test every idea.
■ Don’t take anything for granted.
■ Experience life first hand.
Exercises:
➢ Formulate a series of hypotheses and test them. If…., then…
➢ Be devil’s advocate: try playing devil’s advocate against yourself.
Try making the strongest possible argument against one of your own
beliefs just for the mental exercise. Write at least three points
against yourself.
Sensazione
■ Or sensation, the continual refinement of the senses,
especially sight, to sharpen observation and response
■ “All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”—Da
Vinci
■ Example: Observation,
visual exercise
Sfumato
■ “Going up in Smoke;” A
willingness to embrace
ambiguity, paradox, and
uncertainty.
■ “That painter who has no
doubt will achieve little”—Da
Vinci
■ Examples: enjoying uncertain
book or film ending; research.
Arte/Scienza
■ The development of the balance between science and
art, logic and imagination; “whole-brain” thinking.
■ Example: liberal arts education; scientific research
about arts; graphic arts.
Dichotomy of the brain (Professor Roger Sperry)
Sperry discovered that, in most cases,
the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex processes logical, analytical
thinking
the right hemisphere processes imaginative, big-picture thinking.
Da Vinci: the supreme “whole-brain” thinker
■ In his Treatise on Painting, he cautions: “Those who
become enamoured of the art, without having previously
applied the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may
be compared to mariners who put to sea in a ship
without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be
certain of arriving at the wished for port.”
Learn to create mind maps
■ Mind mapping is a whole-brain method for generating and
organizing ideas. It deviates from the traditional outline
format, which is basically left-brain, by incorporating free-
flowing lines, doodles, drawings and colors — right-brain
stuff. It utilizes both hemispheres of the brain for creativity
and problem solving. It should be no surprise that the note-
taking styles of many of history’s great brains — such as
Darwin, Michelangelo, Twain and Da Vinci — featured
branching, organic structures complemented by lots of
sketches, creative doodles and key words.
Corporalita
■ “of the body”, a healthy mind
requires a healthy body;
cultivation of grace,
ambidexterity, fitness, and
poise.
■ Examples: physical practices:
sports, yoga, dance.
■ Get on a sleep schedule
■ Cultivate ambidexterity
Connessione
■ Weaving together multiple
disciplines around a single
idea, recognizing and
appreciating that all
phenomena are connected.
■ Examples: systems networks,
spiritual/meditative practices.

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