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Leonardo da Vinci's creative process
How to approach problem-solving like da Vinci
The importance of curiosity and observation
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- No-one can stop us having our own thoughts.
- We can with complete impunity fantasise about the people we can’t have.
- We can get to hear the jokes and stories of the funniest people on the planet.
- In the middle of the night, and in the early morning, we have the world to ourselves.
- It isn’t what happened to us that counts; but how we choose to tell the story.
- We do not know what will happen in the future.
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MORE IDEAS ON THIS
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- We can write everything we feel down on paper.
- We can, without too much effort, order a bowl of French fries.
- Others forget the stupid things we’ve done faster than we do.
- Sinc...
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A Few Things Still to Be Grateful For 🙏
- Most of the 78 organs in our bodies have performed pretty reliably since the day we were born.
- Everyone messes up their life quite a bit.
- We’ve sometimes been surprised by how things turned out.
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- We’re still here.
- There were no outright catastrophes today.
- A few times, we really experienced what love felt like.
- A few times, we really felt understood.
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- There’s always music.
- Without asking anyone, we could go into many shops and buy a treat.
- There’s always someone suffering just in the way we are.
- Everyone is weird, we just d...
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- There are lots of beautiful people we can take pleasure in looking at.
- There are people who have loved us, even though we didn’t totally deserve their affection or devotion.
- A few bits of our body are really ra...
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