6 Books on How-to-Think-Like

In the 1670’s Sir Isaac Newton wrote in a letter to his friend Robert Hooke, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” That is exactly what reading How-to-Think-Like biographies can do for you – allow you to see further because of what these people have achieved. These 5 people are what I think are - geniuses - and reading about them makes me feel like one:

#1 Think Like Da Vinci

#2 How to Think Like Da Vinci

#3 How to Think Like Einstein

#4 How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

#5 How to Think Like Bill Gates

#6 How to Think Like Steve Jobs

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Book Review: Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? (2005) by Roberta Edwards

Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? (2005) by Roberta Edwards

Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines (more of theatrical objects), made prototype submarines, and even basic mechanics and sketches for future airplane. Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to. Only thirteen paintings are known to be his; as for the illustrated encyclopaedia he intended to create, all that he left were thousands of disorganized notebook pages. Here is an accessible portrait of a fascinating man who lived at a fascinating time — Italy during the Renaissance. In fact, Leonardo is called “The Renaissance Man”, polymath, term use to describe a person with many talents or areas of knowledge.

This book – with pictures – is very basic. Many things about Leonardo are not covered in this book (example, he was a gay) and well so because it mainly written for young reader. I can’t wait to read Walter Isaacson’s new book, subject-name title, Leonardo da Vinci. I saw one at MHP Bookstore, The Spring, but still expensive… maybe I should wait for it to come out at BookXcess. Meanwhile, I’ll stay curious and continue to learn more about him and his thinking. Leo once said, “Learning never exhausts the mind.”

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Let Nothing Distract Your Attention from Christ this Year

In 1495, Duke Ludovico of Milan asked the Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci to portray the dramatic scene of Jesus’ last supper with His disciples as they gathered in the upper room before His crucifixion. The scene was to be painted on a large wall of the dining hall at Santa Maria delle Crazie monastery in Milan. Da Vinci, then 43 years old and already famous as a painter, sculptor and architect, agreed to take on the assignment.

Working slowly and with great care for detail, he spent 3 years completing the painting. The disciples were grouped in threes, two groups on either side of the figure of Christ, who sat at the center of the table (refer picture above). His arms stretched before Him. In His right hand He held a wine cup, painted with marvelous realism. At last the painting was ready, and da Vinci called in a friend to see it.

“Give me your honest opinion,” da Vinci said.

“It’s wonderful,” the friend told him. “That cup is so real I cannot keep my eyes off it.”

Da Vinci immediately took a brush and drew it across the sparkling cup. “If it affects you that way it must not remain,” he exclaimed. “Nothing shall distract attention from the figure of Christ.”

This year – New Year 2014 – never let anything distract your attention from Christ. Not the desire for wealth or money. Not for prestige or for your name’s glory. Not for the sake of ‘love’ or in the name of unity and compromise. If anything distract your faith, devotion and attention from Christ, take a brush and paint “the cup” away. We must keep “our eyes on Jesus” (Hebrews 12:2) and our “thoughts are fixed on [Him]” (Isaiah 26:3).  Happy New Year ‘Word Speaks Today’ readers! God bless you all.

THINK BIG. START SMALL. GO DEEP.