What’s one new experience you can give yourself – one that you think you might even enjoy? Is it traveling to a new place, learning a new language, signing up for salsa or improv classes? Pick an experience that sounds a little exciting and a little scary and give it a shot.
This is a great way to develop your curiositá, dimonstrazione, your sensazione, your sfumato and your arte/scienza (if you’re doing something creative or something that involves ambidexterity), your corporalita (if you’re doing something physical)
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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One of the most important things you can do to stimulate curiositá, dimonstrazione, sensazione, sfumato, arte/scienza, and connessione is to buy yourself a notebook that you can draw and write in, as Da Vinci did.
Keep it unstructured, playful and agenda-free, and use your notebooks to record your thoughts, questions, ideas, emotions and the new themes you’re exploring. Consider mind-mapping your answers in your notebook, using words, colors and pictures – mind-maps are a great way to develop your arte/scienza.
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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Intelligence is more than just your IQ test score – IQ tests only measure 2 types of intelligence. According to Howard Gardner, there are at least 8 types of intelligence.
What types of intelligence are strongest for you?
1.) Logical-mathematical intelligence
2.) Verbal-linguistic intelligence
3.) Spatial-mechanic intelligence
4.) Musical intelligence
5.) Bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence
6.) Interpersonal-social intelligence
7.) Intrapersonal intelligence
8.) Naturalistic intelligence
To what degree are you using these intelligences in your work and personal life?
What could you be doing more of (and less of) to give yourself more opportunity to utilize these areas of strength?
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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I know that many of the folks who follow AgileLiving.net and The Bottom-line Bookclub are Renaissance Souls at heart – people who love doing many things and feel constricted in work scenarios that are specialized and one-dimensional. Agile Living is about dissolving the social and internal restrictions so that you can experience, create and be more. And it’s about seeking variety, novelty and change so that you can be more agile, resourceful and resilient, so Renaissance Souls already have a lot of what it takes to live an agile life.
But there’s a perception that probably comes from the Factory Age, that if you want to be successful, you must choose your profession early, and you must specialize and follow a path of linear success, and there’s the common saying, “A jack of all trades and master of none” that gets bandied around when you start talking about wanting to do all of the things you love doing.
Well, Leonardo Da Vinci is the original Renaissance Soul and he was a jack of all trades and master of many. I chose this book because Michael has modeled Da Vinci for us and given us 7 principals – 7 ways of being and thinking – that Da Vinci used to create the rich, diverse and successful life that he lived. And I think these success principles apply now just as much as they did in the Renaissance period when Da Vinci roamed the earth.
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“It’s the failure-proof variation-averse species that perish.” – Rick Smith.
Rather than thinking in terms of career destinations, as we’ve been taught to do, see your career decisions as a series of stepping stones and take a journey approach. There’s no “there” to get to, there’s no finality and certainty, and as soon as you think you’re “there,” you’ll stop learning and growing. So, rather than thinking in terms of making one big change so that you can get to some destination that you think you want to get to right now, stay open to change, learning and growing for the rest of your life.
What novelty and change can you bring into your life, to keep yourself alive and learning and comfortable with change?
This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Rick Smith’s The Leap” You can follow Rick on Twitter at @RickSmithAuthor and his website is www.leapbuilder.com
For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on The Leap.
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Continuing with planning your project or career change… having assessed the risks and rewards or your next possible steps, what next small steps are you ready to take now?
When will you take these steps?
Who else will you involve and what will you ask of them?
When will you complete taking action on these tests, review your strategy and decide your next steps?
This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Rick Smith’s The Leap” You can follow Rick on Twitter at @RickSmithAuthor and his website is www.leapbuilder.com
For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on The Leap.
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