What’s your work environment like? What can you do to create a more stimulating work environment?
- Play baroque music
- Have live plants and fresh flowers
- Hang color paintings and photography
- Use comfortable furniture
- Make sure that you have free-flowing air and full-spectrum lights
- Use aromatherapy oils to infuse the room with nice fragrances
- Create a “break room” when people can got to create some mental space, to chat and nap, and to draw and play with games or playdoh.
These are all good environmental triggers for stimulating curiositá, sensazione, arte/scienza and corporalita.
This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Michael Gelb’s Think Like Da Vinci” You can follow Michael on Twitter at @MichaelJGelb and his website is michaelgelb.com
For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on Think Like Da Vinci.
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Take a moment right now to practice multi-sensory visualization; sit comfortably or lie down, breathe deeply – in for 2 counts and out for 4 counts. And as you breathe deeply, think of a beautiful place you’ve visited. It can be any place – any place that’s a beautiful, peaceful place for you. Go there in your mind and as you’re there in your beautiful place right now, look around you and notice what you see; the colors, the textures, the shapes and patterns. Tune into the sounds -what do you hear? And what do you smell? Breathe it in deeply. And what sensations do you feel? What does your body feel like? What does your surroundings feel like to touch? Experience it all in as much detail as you can and then, when you’re ready, return to the now.
This is a great way to develop sensazione, and to relax and create space for curiositá and sfumato. You can do this same kind of multi-sensory visualization using images and mental “videos” of experiences you want to have – it’s a powerful way to program your mind unconsciously to create those experiences.
This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Michael Gelb’s Think Like Da Vinci” You can follow Michael on Twitter at @MichaelJGelb and his website is michaelgelb.com
For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on Think Like Da Vinci.
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Practice observing and experiencing your senses in a relaxed state and then recording what you experienced in your notebook. Try sitting in silence and noticing the different sounds around you, or exploring your natural environment by touching and feeling the textures, or listening for the emotion in music. Take some time to write about what you experienced, in multi-sensory detail…
This is a great way to develop curiositá, dimonstrazione, sensazione, sfumato and corporalita.
This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Michael Gelb’s Think Like Da Vinci” You can follow Michael on Twitter at @MichaelJGelb and his website is michaelgelb.com
For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on Think Like Da Vinci.
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Frank, specific, detailed feedback helps us to make accurate assessments of our reality.
Pick a project you’ve been working on – a project you want to advance. Who can you get honest, useful feedback from? Choose 3 to 5 people and drop them an email right now, asking for their feedback and constructive criticism on your project.
This is a great way to develop curiositá, dimonstrazione and connessione.
This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Michael Gelb’s Think Like Da Vinci” You can follow Michael on Twitter at @MichaelJGelb and his website is michaelgelb.com
For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on Think Like Da Vinci.
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Pick something that you’ve believed for some time. Write down or mind-map your answers to these questions:
- When was the last time you changed an opinion or belief that you held? How comfortable are you with doing this?
- What are the sources that have influenced your beliefs?
- What criteria do you use to assess the validity of the information you receive? When last did you question those sources?
- Take time to question your belief and look for examples in reality that contradict your beliefs. Is there a way that you could test your convictions through experience?
This is a great way to develop curiositá, dimonstrazione and sfumato.
This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Michael Gelb’s Think Like Da Vinci” You can follow Michael on Twitter at @MichaelJGelb and his website is michaelgelb.com
For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on Think Like Da Vinci.
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Look around right now, pick an object that you see – anything. Now write down or mind-map 10 questions about that object – questions that you don’t know the answer to.
How easy was this for you? How often are you in a curious, questioning frame of mind?
This is a great way to develop your curiositá, dimonstrazione, sensazione and sfumato.
This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Michael Gelb’s Think Like Da Vinci” You can follow Michael on Twitter at @MichaelJGelb and his website is michaelgelb.com
For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on Think Like Da Vinci.
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