![]() “I have no special talent,” Einstein once said. He asks and tries to answer hundreds of charmingly random questions: Why is the sky blue? What does the tongue of a woodpecker look like? Do a bird’s wings move faster when flapping up or when flapping down? How is the pattern of swirling water similar to that of curling hair? Is the muscle of the bottom lip connected to that of the top lip? Leonardo did not need to know these things to paint the Mona Lisa (though it helped) he needed to know them because he was Leonardo, always obsessively curious. In his delight-filled notebooks we see his mind dancing across all fields of nature with a curiosity that is exuberant and playful. The first is to be curious, passionately curious. So, what are the ingredients of creativity and imagination? ![]() What counts is being creative and imaginative. Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Ada Lovelace, Steve Jobs, and Albert Einstein. ![]() ![]() Hope blw sharing is ok, did not get author's permission yet #creative #imagination #curiosity #arts #science #dontbeafraid #thinkdifferently #wonder #book #extract ![]()
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