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Leonardo da vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. but he also respected other people. he didn't get into disputations. he was a genius but he had a certain humility. in his notebooks you see lists of people he wanted to grill about things like how the water diversions in milan work; he was always interested in learning from other people.
-Walter Isaacson
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Leonardo Da Vinci Was Comfortable Being Illegitimate,

Walter Isaacson
Leonardo da vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. but he also respected other people. he didn't get into disputations. he was a genius but he had a certain humility. in his notebooks you see lists of people he wanted to grill about things like how the water diversions in milan work; he was always interested in learning from other people.
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Leonardo da vinci had such a playful curiosity. if you read his notebooks, you'll see he's curious about what the tongue of a woodpecker looks like, but also why the sky is blue, or how an emotion forms on somebody's lips. he understood the beauty of everything. i've admired leonardo my whole life, both as a kid who loved engineering - he was one of the coolest engineers in history - and then as a college student, when i travelled to see his notebooks and paintings.
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Leonardo da vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the bible - without questioning it. and this was the beginning of the scientific method. this is another lesson for our time: that when we have evidence that contradicts a certain belief, we should be willing to change it. i think this made leonardo, in some ways, a person who better understood the beauty of god's creation than a person who just takes all received wisdom from the bible on faith.
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We relate to leonardo da vinci because his genius was just being passionately curious about everything. he wanted to know everything he could know about our universe, including how we fit into it. we can't all have a superhuman intellect like albert einstein's, but we can be super-curious. and we can also quit smashing curiosity out of the hands our children.
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It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. for the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. it is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. in perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for god: and it is lost and submerged in him and transformed into him.
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I think leonardo da vinci teaches us the value of both being focused on things that fascinate us but also, at times, being distracted and deciding to pursue some shiny new idea that you happen to stumble upon. balancing intense focus with being interested in a whole lot of different things is something that we have to do in the internet age.
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