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Title: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day by Michael Gelb, Michael J. Gelb ISBN: 0-440-50827-4 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 08 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (73 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: You go Leonardo!
Comment: I used to think of Michael Gelb as a Tony Buzan lite. They are both fascinated by enhancing cognitive faculties every which way they can through such tools as mindmapping. It happens Buzan always was first.

My opinion changed with this book. Michael Gelb established himself as a coleader in the field of enhancing one's whole brain faculties. In this book, he touches on so many different perspectives and techniques to develop your thinking abilities that I have to think of him as a real innovator.

Woops, I forgot the maestro himself, Leonardo Da Vinci, did it all a half millenium ago.

This fact does not detract from the book or Michael Gelb at all. Michael Gelb's fascination with Leonardo's superior faculties in everything is really contagious. Did you know that Leonardo was a world class entertainer, cook, and musician. He played a number of musical instruments very proficiently. He was apparently quite the athlete as a younger man. Through Michael Gelb's description, Leonardo seemed rather unreal, at least compared to any contemporary human being. Nevertheless, Leonardo comes accross so vividly. Thus, from both a cultural and historical standpoint, this portrayal of Leonardo is very interesting.

Another interesting aspect of the book, is a well developed drawing course in the second half of the book. I did these exercises. They were fun to do, and I discovered I could draw reasonably well. This was a fun surprise. You probably will surprise yourself too, unless you know already that you are an excellent artist.

Rating: 5
Summary: A truly fantastic, thought-provoking work
Comment: Gelb has created a fantastic, thought-provoking, even life-changing work. I would highly recommend reading this book and then following that up with some additional research about the life of Leonardo da Vinci.

I read this book some time ago. It had a profound and lasting impact on the way I live my life. Better yet, Gelb provided me with some very powerful tools so that I could come to better understand the most important person in my life... me. I have found the concepts and the tools presented in this book to be powerful and "top of mind" even a year after having read the book for the first time.

Gelb has a wonderful accomplishment in "How to Think". Join him and discover yourself.

Rating: 5
Summary: Just "un-self help" enough for those allergic to that genre.
Comment: This book is one of two things to everyone:

1. a lifechanging read.

2. an ego boost.

For those in the first group, they'll identify a deficit in at least a couple of what the author calls "7 critical principals" which served as the principal enablers of Da'Vinci's genius (Curiosita, Dimonstratzione, Sensazione, Sfumato, Arte/Scienza, Corporalita, Connessione).

However, most of those that have the drive to purchase (and actually read) a book like this very likely embody (in some way) most of those seven tenets. This group is going to race through this book (I read in one night, lol, ultimate arrogance....whatev.) and feel pretty good about themselves.

I'd recommend circling back through those principals that you might be underdeveloped in. That's where this book was most valuable to me (other than the better working understanding of who this great man was and some of the very cool and diverse stuff he did), it helped me realize that I need to continually work to balance my interests (not so easy to do in this world of hyper-specialization).

I think this to be a fun and worthwhile read for everyone and highly recommend.

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