DAY 12

Leonardo da Vinci

Painter · Scientist · Inventor · Italy (Renaissance)
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
1452 ~ 1519 · 67 yrs
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THIS LIFE

Did I look at even one thing today through a child's eyes?

📝ONGO's Reflection

The first time I saw Leonardo's notebooks, I was stunned. They were less the working notes of a genius than the sketchbook of a child who never once lost his curiosity. How birds fly, why water flows the way it does, how the muscles of a human face move — he was a man who loved questions more than he sought answers. As we become adults, we forget how to ask. Da Vinci tells us not to stop questioning even after we have grown up, showing with his entire life how far a person who keeps a lifetime of curiosity can go.

— ONGO · Curator
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks (Codex Atlanticus)

🌱Apply It Today

Choose one of the most ordinary objects you saw today and ask, just once, "Why is it shaped this way?" Don't search for the answer — spend one minute simply guessing. That is how da Vinci's notebooks began.

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