What Leonardo’s obsession with water teaches us about longevity
One of my favorite ways of understanding nature creating more possibilities, is to watch water move through the world. Water creates the ways for itself, moving with gravity, moving around obstacles, wearing down obstacles, reshaping the world. When there isn’t an overt way forward, water seeps into the land, becomes a vapor in the sky, freezes
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But I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each moment of our lives richer
Walter Isaacson • Leonardo da Vinci
Water is eternally changing. This is why water is so adaptable: it responds to its surroundings. The same goes for you. You should be fluid and adaptive in your approach to everything you do — whether at work or home, in your relationship, career, finances, life experiences or personal growth.
Change, improve, or upgrade when your new situation
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So I've been playing around in the Sublime App, and it summarized one of the quotes that I thought was interesting. What it said was, "Change isn't a river you swim in; it's a tide you learn to ride." Except most people keep building sandcastles on the shore. That was triggered by this idea that we spend so much of our lives chasing the polished
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Leonardo didn't know he was being a Renaissance man. He was just following his curiosity, letting each interest inform the others, refusing to separate art from science because he understood they were the same investigation.
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Leonardo didn't know he was being a Renaissance man. He was just following his curiosity, letting each interest inform the others, refusing to separate art from science because he understood they were the same investigation.
Five hundred years... See more