How to be remarkable #41: Be a genius
On February 16, 2025 By thesuccessmanual Topic: Remarkable, Simpleguide
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There is no such thing as intelligence, only interest.
- Richard Feynmen
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Stephen Leacock
A SIMPLE GUDIE TO THINKING LIKE A GENIUS
1. Look at problems in many different ways, and find new perspectives that no one else has taken (or no one else has publicized!)
2. Visualize!
3. Produce! A distinguishing characteristic of genius is productivity.
4. Make novel combinations. Combine, and recombine, ideas, images, and thoughts into different combinations no matter how incongruent or unusual.
5. Form relationships; make connections between dissimilar subjects.
6. Think in opposites.
7. Think metaphorically
8. Prepare yourself for chance.
- Michalko, Michael, ‘Thinking Like a Genius: Eight strategies used by the super creative, from Aristotle and Leonardo to Einstein and Edison’
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
– C.W. Ceram
WHAT IS DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION?
1. Disruptive Innovation is something that transforms existing markets an creates new ones.
2. Disruptive Innovations trade off pure performance in favor of simplicity, convenience or affordability.
3. Disrupters target customers who find existing solutions too expensive or too complicated.
4. They offer “good enough” solutions at a lower price.
- Clayton M. Christensen & Scott D. Anthony, The Innovator’s solution, and Seeing what’s next
Millions say that the Apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
– Bernard M. Baruch
HOW TO THINK LIKE LEONARDO DAVINCI
- Curiosita: An insatiably curious approach to life.
- Dimonstratzione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience.
- Sensazione: The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to clarify experience.
- Sfumato: A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
- Arte/Scienza: The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination ("whole-brain thinking").
- Corporalita: The cultivation of ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
- Connessione: A recognition and appreciation for the connectedness of all things and phenomena; "systems thinking."
'How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci' by Michael J. Gelb
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