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Leonardo da Vinci Lessons: Learning and Living Like a Master
Teach yourself, give learning time, work with others and finish what you start: the final four lessons from Leonardo da Vinci's life and notebooks.
What a Renaissance Master Still Teaches Us
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is the exemplar of the Master. As a polymath, he made discoveries in multiple fields. As an artist, he created some of the greatest masterpieces of the High Renaissance. And the life he lived left behind remarkable insights that we can still use today.
In Part 1 and Part 2, we examined the lessons Leonardo da Vinci gave us about building powerful learning habits and supporting those activities by keeping us healthy and productive.
In Part 3, we find the final skills that bring everything together.
1. Become an Autodidact
An autodidact is someone who is self-taught. And Leonardo was, above all, an autodidact.
But teaching yourself is about more than reading books or listening to podcasts about topics you are interested in, although it certainly includes that, too. When you take on the responsibility of your own education, it also means putting in the time and effort to seek out a more complete understanding of topics,
