How to Be a Genius: Leonardo da Vinci's 5 Rules

We all know about Leonardo da Vinci's accomplishments - the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, dozens of inventions... but what traits enabled him to do so much?
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[@Thomasfrank]

Hey all! After I uploaded this, I realized that I've been using the term "T-shaped person" for so long that I neglected to fully define it. Essentially, a T-shaped person is someone who has deep expertise in one (or a few areas), PLUS a broad array of shallower knowledge in lots of other areas. Here's an entire article on my site that goes more in-depth on the concept: collegeinfogeek.com/become-t-shaped-person/ Also, this video was primarily researched and written by my friend Martin Boehme, who co-hosts our podcast: kzbin.info - you can also follow him on Instagram: instagram.com/yomartholomew/ If you want to learn more about Leonardo da Vinci's life and what made him successful, check out our 75-minute episode about him (it's basically an extended version of this video): kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6jIc4OXqrySqKM Finally, I want to give a shout-out to my friends at Charisma on Command for the fill-in-the-blank idea, which they let me shamelessly steal. Check their channel out: kzbin.info

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[@Thomasfrank]

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[@zal9706]

Thanks for clearing that up

[@fireshine4105]

Hi Thomas! you NEED to watch the tedtalk : why some of us don't have a true calling!

[@BridGemini]

Da Vinci knew himself deeply. The more you do the more you learn about the world/things, but most importantly, you learn about yourself.

[@johnnysparks44]

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[@mysterym2269]

Bold of you to assume I'm not already genius

[@Thomasfrank]

how foolish of me

[@richardjones4259]

Not really all that bold.

[@lukabilbao5098]

best comment ive read in a while

[@Getcakedieyoung23]

*tips fedora*

[@supaguh]

lmao

[@titlespree]

*Wisdom is the laughter of experience. - Leonardo Da Vinci*

[@rayenkiwi]

behold the power of entp

[@Orthodoxi]

Mindprovement - Self Esteem & Influence Channel no, no, no, it was “laughter is the daughter of wisdom.” 😉

[@sonalichaudhury8922]

What does this mean ll u plz explain ☺️

[@savannahtiffany503]

I believe it means experience mockingly laughs in the face of wisdom, for wisdom is a young child, believing it to be a wise giant, while experience has much grip on the past and the knowledge of the mass.

[@specialknees6798]

@@rayenkiwi I’m always surprised to see mbti on videos that aren’t about it.

[@annroviris]

Is worth noticing thar Leonardo da Vinci started creating meaningful work in his 40s. Meaning that is never late to get creative and creating :). Thanks for this awesome video. I loved it!

[@acciodalek]

Anna That is a really sweet thought but not entirely true. His most prolific work was done in his 40s But Leonardo was already a gifted mathematician and painter - hurdles ahead of his peers - by the time he was in his 20s, despite having little formal education.

[@maximomanabat8382]

@@acciodalek I thought he cant do long division. How is that gifted? I think Da Vinci was a forest gump who never stopped.

[@joshuapeters567]

@@acciodalek no listen, no listen

[@AFO_AnalyRics]

Are we talking about the same guy who, as his master's (Verrocchio) youngest apprentice, was already making paintings that people preferred over his master's? Same guy???

[@kenonerboy]

How to spread missinformation101

[@FarisMonshi]

7:17 I know you meant to be “wary” of perfectionism, but my god am I “weary” of it too.

[@mcee555]

Omg, I definitely chuckled at how "weary" fit into the context of perfectionism as well!

[@AaronOrtiz]

i am w(e)ary of it too.

[@Kate98755]

And yet you reply to his imperfect comment, this helps drive more people towards perfection because pointing it out affects perfectionists

[@davidwhite3078]

@@Kate98755 True. Surely. However only each of us are responsible for our own thoughts, beliefs, and actions.Blame does little more than just allowing us to grey the lines and distance ourselves from ownership of our own choices.

[@robertogerardi7040]

1. Present yourself based on what you want to become - highlight current interests that you are able to deliver - 01:13:00 2. Become a T-shape person - Use knowledge from different topics to allow creativity to emerge - 03:14:00 3. Know when you are wrong - Adjust your believes to fit new information, use facts to find a new theory to live by - 04:23:00 4. Collaborate with other people - Inspiration and improvement comes by working with others, not alone - 05:23:00 5. Be wary of perfectionism - finish with what you are doing to move forward, rather than leaving it unfinished - 07:14:00

[@mynameisreau2693]

Thanks!

[@camelliastarriver5659]

Thanks for your succinct summarization!

[@ragdoll7477]

Well 🎉

[@adrienlenud]

Step 1 : Procrastinate Check

[@rayenkiwi]

entp thats why he's a genius

[@Zett76]

Step 1: start a ToDo list Step 2: check step 1 Step 3: go celebrate your successful day...

[@yen6170]

I cant even check lmao

[@TheBigdan210]

Pinche huevon

[@danishsamir8807]

You're getting it wrong. Being an avid procrastinator was one of the failings of leonardo's life

[@AuthenticSelfGrowth]

Leonardo was a true pioneer. Ahead of his time and my favourite ninja turtle 😁👌🏼

[@wendiwasden2635]

I like Donatella

[@YigitCakar]

The coolest guy of the time was Raphael

[@nine-vi7rw]

Tshh. Mikey for days.

[@anoldtimer]

i liked Leonardo but i like Raphael

[@lucifvar]

Bro, you are everywhere! I last saw you at a Rupert Spira video. Well, let us keep expanding ourselves fellow Renaissance man. Arrivederci

[@3rdand105]

I always hit "Like" before the video starts, as it's loading, because I already know Thomas will never disappoint us.

[@osse1n]

*Da Vinci is one of the most versatile human beings ever lived.* Having him as a mentor, throughout his documented work, is a sure way of at least getting a dust of his genius persona.

[@DirtyPoul]

You should read about John von Neumann. In many ways, he's like a modern day Da Vinci. Von Neumann would be my pick for most intelligent human to ever live.

[@arckocsog253]

Dirty Poul I'm glad you know about him. He was originally from my country, so I am very proud of him.

[@Andrea14792]

I really like that you're doing a summary of the lessons at the end of the video, it's so useful. I used to go back a second time and write them down in my notes but now I can make a quick screenshot :) Thank you, always.

[@FunnyBuns1]

How to be a "Genius" (or at least really smart): Have interests, be curious and observant, and then ardently pursue those curiosities, especially the ones that interest you the most, and learn, learn, learn. New answers present more questions to look into for more answers; so you can dive deeper into any curiosity, really. If an interest is lost in a topic, or if it feels like you've hit rock bottom with the curiosity you were previously interested in, that's normal as we change everyday. However, you might find new interesting curiosities, especially if you broaden your range and ways of living and learning. You could travel, read books, watch educational videos, become a protege, return to school and along the way, cultivate your imagination or train your mind to come up with new questions and answer those questions which seemed impossible to fathom, before. There is always something new to learn about the universe, whether it be internal or external. *The most important thing, I believe, is getting to know yourself, your desires, your interests, your curiosities and really, becoming a friend of yourself so that you can know yourself to the extent that you have an idea of what direction you want to focus your mental energy towards. Doing so, I think, can potentially eliminate any procrastination with what you may believe to be your passion because that's what really separates the "Geniuses" from the ordinary folk (The self knowledge, the passion, the focus, and the work).* It takes time as no one is born a genius and no one can know everything... Even so, everyone can become a master at something and I think that the people we call "Geniuses" were masters of curiosity and, possibly, imagination as well. *They used methods unique to themselves* to acquire vast databases of knowledge and in doing so consistently, their imaginations were empowered to go where no ordinary individual's mind could go. Ordinary people called them "Geniuses", but they're just as ordinary as anyone else lol. Over time, having gained knowledge and/or wisdom, cultivate your imagination and you might realize you know a lot more than you did before! Go master your passion and then find other interesting things to learn or something else to master. I agree with Einstein when he said imagination is more important than knowledge but you need knowledge to empower the imagination. Become a master of the thing you love to do because you only have one life and the time is ticking, my friend; you don't want to end up old and live in the past, ruminating over the things you could've done that would've let you be happy in your lifetime. Or, just live in ignorance and be happy, haha😄 *For the curious, ignorance is not bliss*

[@walksthroughlife900]

Very nicely put!

[@art_of_bayar]

My god dude what a comment! I realized so many things thanks to your comment. Thank you very much !

[@nicoleperskie4824]

Love this

[@cj3030]

Dude I felt some type of way when I was done reading this thanks for writing it 💯

[@tpspiritualjourney2877]

Thanks a lot man.😀

[@TheBuksha]

I really liked how you summarized the lessons. Nice job !!

[@evrypixelcounts]

My goal is to be a polymath. To bad the modern world doesn't support that lifestyle. I'm going to try though.

[@slappy8941]

You could start by mastering English grammar.

[@alexandra-stefaniamoloiu2431]

try AI, you can apply it in any domain and you need domain knowledge.

[@nuvoclassic]

I'm a polymath - it can be done. And unlike Leo, I don't nap every 4 hours PLUS I get 8-9 hours a sleep a night. My secret: meticulously plan my time - and eliminate as many distractions and interruptions as possible. I'm on a mission. Speaking of distractions - I better get off this time-wasting youtube! :-)

[@NoisqueVoaProduction]

Not sure what qualifies you to become a polymath. As I know, it is someone that knows a lot from a variety of fields. Sometimes is hard to know when to draw a line. What you are saying is probably that society tends to look for specialized personnel rather than someone that knows a little bit about everything. But, well, I think you should probably become specialized on something and, after that, digg more into that and other interests such as hobbies, you can extend your repertoire. Probably choosing a career that involves multidisciplinary skills is the way to go. Good luck to you!

[@myes344]

@@nuvoclassic he dosent sleep every 4 hrs. He sleep for 2 to 3 hrs many times a day. Mr. Poly Theory is he dont sleep until something is done. And taking short naps gets him more awake time

[@leonardorocha1875]

"my boy Leo DV" hahaha Nice video! Thanks :)

[@azureocean8571]

There was something in this video that really resonated with me. Loved it! Your content is always getting better and better.

[@marcelinomichael9564]

Hey Thomas i just wanna say thankyou for making this video out. These lessons really hit me especially talking about perfectionism that i generally suffer, making me abandon some of my commisioned work for the sake of perfectionism. This truly a good reminder for me personally, keep up the good work buddy, greetings from Indonesia. God bless

[@niceonefransi]

I really liked this video! Your content is just consistently really good and useful without unnecessary fillers. I appreciate that!

[@samuelgunn9881]

I feel like this is the best video yet. Thank you.

[@purposefulturtle]

The hits just keep on coming. Such a mindful and thought provoking video, particularly the parts about knowing when you're wrong and embracing imperfection. We all need reminding of these qualities in the modern world. Thanks Thomas!

[@mysterym2269]

0:00 I never related so much to anything.

[@saintgeorge7467]

All ur works arr great wish i could work and learn with your team.

[@ArturoCabello]

Love this tips. We are capable of becoming geniuses if we put in time!

[@bwgsLife]

Great video summary of the 5 rules - thank you Thomas 👍🙏🏼

[@iamdjgreed]

I would love to see another "What's In My Bag?" video sometime soon!

[@ina4714]

Great vid! Also your voice has become even smoother and better!!

[@Squintillions]

I need that book! And I love what you said about perfectionism (best thing within time and constraints).

[@fraktallyfractals2083]

The moment I read "Leonardo Da Vinci" I was hooked. Thank you so much for making this video. We should all be more like Da Vinci, more curious, more determined. 🥰

[@sowmyakolli5392]

This was a beautifully crafted video. Thanks for the relevant reminder on perfectionism.

[@aranzarubioosornio7686]

i’m gonna be honest, you had me at “become a renaissance person”

[@basedbattledroid3507]

You're saying that I too can be... ... A Ninja Turtle?

[@jasonsvarczkopf1284]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@dirtyactsatdonedirtprice4547]

Well thats pretty neat

[@jasonsvarczkopf1284]

Mohammad Hafeez Lampa are you like sensei or something 😅

[@altairaquila7175]

You can be a ninja vegetarian

[@Hajjmusic_]

This was beautiful!

[@abdullahnaser6477]

I really liked the production quality, choice of words, voice tone ... thank your for your valuable work

[@MonsterMo]

And Leonardo da Vinci was in Assassin's Creed 2 ^^

[@Thomasfrank]

My favorite character in the game! I was excited to go grab footage from that game for B-roll of Milan, but then I remembered that you don't actually go to Milan in any AC game :(

[@Dreakn]

And he touched Ezio's knee in Revelations.

[@kailashsingha4073]

He appears again in AC Brotherhood

[@waddahalbaini2445]

Monster Mo sorry can you explain what are assassin's creed??.

[@dorathemon6043]

Yahh

[@10albertw]

I also read that book by Isaacson. What surprised me was, he would work on paintings for years. And as he learned new painting techniques, would go and work on his older works.

[@PracticalInspiration]

Superb, really well explained and his open views on differing ideas is definitely one of his great strengths as a thinker. Thanks for defining T-Shaped person.

[@kavyanshmehta1376]

Education is the most powerful weapon we just have to find it.

[@slakoththesuperstar2639]

(not on schools tho)

[@maxnieves4641]

{mint} Vendetta its found inside our shoes

[@gtrrohit5078]

@@slakoththesuperstar2639 hmmm some knowledge is found there.

[@waddahalbaini2445]

Kavyansh Mehta you are indian isn't?

[@helencarter4902]

I just went to see an exhibition of 13 of Da Vinci's drawings a couple days ago. One of the notices stated that he learned about human anatomy and muscle structure etc by personally dissecting over 30 cadavers. It was great to see the works, 500 years old and amazing detail in them.

[@arjunpanwar2542]

Don't think ir try to be like someone. Try to enhance and achieve the best version of yourself. And to achieve this we must learn form these great personalities

[@photografo9240]

Another amazing video Thomas! I have much of the same problem, too many interests, very little time!

[@ChristianSoschner]

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing

[@ferrossin]

Great timing, I was just reflecting this past week about how my interests are everywhere and I'm not appropriately focusing on anything. The concept of being a at-shaped person comes handy and makes a lot of sense, I'm going to explore it!

[@extraudoknight]

Bryan Tracy and your videos are my most productive books!

[@grazianabarsocchi9970]

Thank you, very enjoyable!

[@Greennoob2]

I need this. Thanks so much

[@ad.7328]

love your videos!

[@pakistanianimalz]

Love your channel bro!!!

[@ary2766]

thanks. don't bomb the white house pls

[@stephaniecorwin6438]

I loved that book! Nice evolution with the fill-in-the-blank summary!

[@astonfallen5272]

nicely done video Tom !

[@oliwiabieniek]

The way you edit your videos to include something else than you just talking at the camera is genius, it helps to remember the content. Civ V for military engineering? Heck yes!

[@lindahamdouna7458]

I LOVE YOUUUU, i NEEDED THIS VIDEO

[@Cassiearan]

Work Hard beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. Dream big and work hard. The only genius that is worth anything is the genius for hard work. Hi guys! Would just like to share our journey with you. 😀 We own a cookie shop business in our college town. When we first started it, we were living in our car with very little direction, just a huge passion to be successful. We just graduated college as well. We started a cookie shop out of a local bagel shop in their off hours at night. We were living in our car in the parking lot of the shop at the time with my boyfriend, Bran. It was a crazy experience but it worked! We became a success! And how we have our first storefront location (a second launching soon!) We started it to fund a year long backpacking trip around the world and to be successful while living the life of our dreams.

[@archive6094]

Da Vinci has a style that has inspired me in my own works for years now

[@zenebean]

This was so helpful, and I loved the Freeza reference

[@JR-_-2010]

This is a great video. More please.

[@praniti14]

Hi Frank! Thanks for making such useful content for us! A ques - which video editing software do you use?

[@newtonahmed9902]

Nice video. This helped me a lot.👍

[@ankeu.a.wallace]

Awesome !!! Love 💘 Leonardo Davinci's work !!!

[@AlTorresFineArt]

Great video!

[@overdigitize]

Best sponsorship ad. Now I really want to learn more about Leonardo

[@joelmaskell4936]

The application of the things he learned is what's really impressive!

[@raedbrahem7478]

Great video

[@grm65]

I watched your video twice before reading the comment below where you explain that you forgot to define a T-shaped person. I feel better now. Thanks so much for clarifying that point. Great video!

[@markfennell1167]

I have a collection of writings from Leonardo Da Vinci. His own words, translated to English. Here are a few things that I want to add, based on those writings. 1. He did want to become famous. Early in life around his 20s, he wrote that he did want to become famous. To be remembered for creating something impressive. He also said he thought he would achieve that by developing flying machines. 2. He studied nature from early age. Most of his young life, as a child and teenager, were spent walking in nature. He would look closely at everything. The flowers. The birds. The clouds. The rivers. He spent lots of time observing, studying nature in action. Those many hours, days, years resulted in a vast amount of direct knowledge. We can also see those details in many of his drawings. These direct studies also led to ideas about natural processes and mechanics of motion. 3. He knew how to flatter his patrons. He wrote about this. Basically, you find out what they want, and tell them how you can deliver it too them. He also wrote about how to tell when the potential patron seems to be bored, and quickly move to another idea before you lose total interest. 4. Italy at the time was many small kingdoms. Run by kings and merchants of various types. He knew that they wanted fame and power. Thus, the two best selling points were battle machines, to defeat your opponent, and paintings which would glorify the family. And that's what they bought. 5. He classified himself as a "painter" first. Also, for him drawings were far more important than words. He wrote this several times. With a detailed drawing or painting, you could convey far more than any pages of text. I agree, and when I write my science books, I create numerous drawings for this same reason. There are many other interesting things from this collection of notes. Those are just a few.

[@markfennell1167]

Regarding energies, he talked about the processes of energies as "violence and death". Violence is essentially the objects in motion, the movement of the river, and so on. The "death" is when objects are still, at rest. The phrasing is interesting. Perhaps related to the fighting city-states of the era.

[@hortopiro]

Thank you, and to be a genius is to be simple. Rule #1 DO NOT TELL A LIE. Always be honest. Your brain literally changes when you start telling the truth, and you start seeing the truth. Life becomes easier and you become peaceful, fear disappears.

[@sai226]

😂😂 you are disillusioned. Think. If you told the truth all the time sure you will be right all the time and honesr all the time. How many people will you be honest enough for them not get mad at you. People hate people who tell the truth all the time. You tell the truth until you start to tell dangerous truths. Ask socrates

[@saniyaabdul1916]

me w adhd, listening to thomas applaud leo for his adhd and the comments too this is cool

[@Sheeshening]

Da Vinci is such an amazing figure, very inspiring

[@raph009]

Very inspirational! :) I love Leonardo Da Vinci. Thanks for the recommandation of Walter's biography! I'll make sure to check it out. :)

[@28meerak]

You're my favorite goat on KZbin.

[@ahmedeliwa3535]

I Want to become a Theoretical Physicist, Mathematician, Philosopher and Poet

[@sruti19jan]

And I want to be a doctor, a war veteran, an actor, a singer, a quantum physicist, an artist and a philosopher 😬

[@malkisehgal2481]

Internet has made everything easier.... So you can become all that.....BTW my list is similar just add Author.

[@Arthur-rb3vy]

Johnny Sins

[@chokichocat3083]

NO MY DICK IS BIGGER!

[@Hobopaladin]

All of those is titles you claim for yourself.

[@HartmutNoerenberg]

Awesome. 💥

[@markriva4259]

Da Vinci's most important quote centers on these words, "Learn how to see," and by that he means learn how to go beyond thinking.

[@physicsworld4653]

You are Brilliant Sir.

[@jordanneel7]

Anyone else notice the lighting setup change? There's no longer a hotspot on the top-left side of Tom's face. Makes the whole scene look more dramatic and I love it.

[@jaredtweed7826]

Love the new music!

[@sreitouch]

I always want to be good at everything that I want for my life, not everything that humans can do. People said that we should not focus to be perfect but actually, I really want to live close to be perfect.

[@meganrodriguez1086]

Seriously not trying to be a jerk, but I haven't watched your videos in a little bit and this was by far the least panic inducing one I've ever seen on this channel. My anxiety is a bit wild so it's just me, but I really like that you aren't talking at 100 mph as well as the chill background music. This was actually really relaxing, informative, and enjoyable.

[@anthonysebastian7402]

Good starting point, thank you!...0:00 - 0:10 --- been trying to crack this for a while now and I still haven't found the answers or set of practices and routines. If you or anyone else has any recommendations that dig a bit deeper, lemme kno!

[@davidplata1302]

Me: Yes i want to do that My adhd: sure buddy

[@firelight2555]

9:38 recap

[@fellow9yro578]

This man just explained my dream in first 11 seconds of the video

[@camaroones9538]

Man, I love that Freiza analogy!

[@Hb093]

imo the learning curve has a logarithmic profile: you learn a lot in very few time at the very first steps, but then, going deeper and deeper, even a tiny improvement may costs you years. Maybe this is the reason why so many people love to learn all sort of skills: knowledge is one very good reason to walk this earth :)

[@ghitapaints91]

Thank you

[@robertdickerson6921]

Love this video. I came out as a ambidextrous artest last year I'm also an accomplish catfisherman and qualified for worlds in archery.. . But just like DaVinci my gift is my flaw makes it hard for me to hold a job I don't like authority I can't just turn off my creativity and I jump from subject to subject all day I push to open my mind I got like 5 different paintings and pincel are going i fill like there is no end to one project so there no way to finish a project. I always give people credit for there work and never tell a lie... True genius only lies behind the truth...

[@Clash-wn3lr]

Hitting that like button for naturally squeezing in a Freiza reference ever so briefly. Very impressive

[@dissonanceparadiddle]

Dang this is great.I really miss him 😔 he was one of my favorite humans.

[@JayHaussman]

Does anyone know how Thomas illustrates the text like at 5:21 ? Is this done in keynote then imported into the editing software? Thanks!

[@NovelNovelist]

Hmm, while it's certainly nice to think that your best work is always ahead of you and you'll continue to get better and better with each project...that just doesn't seem to be the case, at least not for me. Many of my older past projects, across a full range of different areas, have turned out much better than my more recent projects. I can live with that. But I don't always expect to exceed, or even be able to meet, the same standards I set in the past. Linear progression is a lovely concept, but my journey at least seems to be characterized more by peaks and valleys.

[@illyrosen9772]

Yo I just clicked here on a random video and this is just what I needed, thx

[@anastasiatumanova]

Really true point around perfectionism and setting constraints. Be OK with slight imperfections, there will always be room for improvement. I'll add that once you've completed a project, treat yourself! Even a chocolate bar can do wonders :)

[@yen6170]

If only she was there to tell him,"Does this spark joy?"

[@wachiramureithi]

Good work ....

[@pd1769]

Fantastic

[@activebounty1467]

absolute legend

[@Nikossachaan]

ok, I'm completely love Good Omens mention ;)

[@luisvelax8143]

Amazing the great Leonardo da Vinci. A totally genius. 🔥🔥🔥

[@user-df8hl4zx2l]

This video was really made for me! I always wanted fo be like Da Vinci. May I sub it to portuguese? There are people who I know that really need to hear this.

[@AnjolaoluwaAwe]

I have the same problem- I want to do everything not just one thing 🤦🏿‍♀️ 😂

[@samuelgunn9881]

Maybe the problem isn't the desire. It might be that you simply need to organize what you want to prioritize. That's the main issue I have been having.

[@zzeuss3367]

The thing what are so important for genius: to show other people your understanding and explain your opinion. For that you need an experience.