#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity

What Leonardo Da Vinci had, just like Benjamin Franklin had, just like Steve Jobs had Was an insatiable curiosity. And a willingness to be curious about those things that you and I sort of quit noticing after a while. I looked in Leonardo's notebooks, I was reading through his notebooks, and there's a section on why is the sky blue. And what amazed me when I saw that in Leonardo's notebooks

was boom. It's in Einstein's notebooks. He writes, Why is the sky blue? And we see it as a kid. We're all curious as kids until grown ups say, quit asking so many dumb questions. But Leonardo teaches us That to be creative.

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