The 7 Da Vincian Principles PDF

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The 7 Da Vincian Principles 1. Curiosità  Curiosita is an insatiably curious approach to life and unrelenting quest for continuous learning.  What If: Asks your brain to project into the future. It helps you see opportunities where you might have missed them, it helps you make connections and it is a sneaky way to get your brain more goal-oriented. What if I started a conversation with this person? What if I tried this new activity? What if I started that new workout program? What comes after ‘what if…’ is typically magical.  How Come: How come gets you into ‘why’. Instead of passively observing the world or going into automatic responses, ‘how come’ helps you question both your actions and other’s motives. I believe this question keeps me honest and alert. It forces me to live more purposefully. Da Vinci didn’t waste a second of his life. He was always creating and guessing and tinkering. ‘How come’ helps you use every second of your life with a mission. 2. Dimostrazione  Dimostrazione is a commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence and a willingness to learn from mistakes.  This principle, is empowering.  Dimostrazione is the embodiment of taking your life into your own hands. This principle tells us:  Test every idea.  Don’t take anything for granted.  Experience life first hand. 3. Sensazione  Sensazione is the continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to enliven experience. 4. Sfumato  Sfumato is a willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.  Da Vinci had a very unique ability to understand the extreme opposites of opinions and phenomenon.  He was also able to explore unknowns and revel in the uncertainty  Most of us are uncomfortable with not knowing or unanswerable questions, so we avoid anything out of our control.  We stick to what we know and immediately do a Google search the moment we don’t know something. Here are some ways you can capture more Sfumato:

 Stop Googling: For the next week, anytime you need to look up a word or trivia fact, try to guess the answer instead. You can phone a friend for help as well, as long as they brainstorm with you too!  Embrace Your Ambiguity: List some situations from your life where you are confused or feel ambiguous about an outcome and explore the feelings that come up.  Cultivate Confusion Endurance: Tap into your own paradoxes by asking questions like, “How are my strengths and weaknesses related?” or “What is the relationship between my saddest moments and the most joyful ones?” 5. Arte/Scienza  Arte/scienza is the development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination.  Create a mind map of your life: Have you ever thought about how the different parts of your life are connected? Make a mind map of your major life moments and how they are connected. 6. Corporalitá  Corporalita is the cultivation of grace, ambidexterity, fitness and poise.  Da Vinci was incredibly athletic in addition to his mental prowess. From early on, he realized that if he wanted his mind to perform at optimal levels, his body also had to be in top shape. 7. Connessione  Connessione is a recognition of and appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things and phenomena.  It has to do with something called ‘systems thinking’. Systems thinking is when you are able to take vast amounts of information and create routines, lists and organization. It also has to do with pattern recognition....