History of Vegetarianism - Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - da Vinci's vegetarianism. Written by David Hurwitz dhurwitz@socal.rr.com Last updated July 19, 2002 Leonardo da Vinci is widely regarded as the archetypal universal genius. Between what was known of his work historically, and what has been learned about him since his notebooks were finally deciphered in the second half of the 19th century, we are amazed at the diversity of fields in which he brilliantly involved himself.
From his writings and from what his early biographers wrote about him, we also find da Vinci was great in terms of his integrity and sensitivity to moral issues. This paper will explore an aspect of da Vinci’s moral life that while not controversial, is also not widely known to the general public. I refer to da Vinci’s refusal to consume animals and his recognition of the cruelty of mistreating them. Jean Paul Richter was the first person in history to decipher Leonardo’s notebooks. In The Mind of Leonardo da Vinci (1928), Edward MacCurdy wrote: In MSS. Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived. Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla. Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome. There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla.
It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life. The drunk history of Tesla is quite awesome, too. Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them. Shouldn't you announce your goals, so friends can support you? Isn't it good networking to tell people about your upcoming projects? Doesn't the “law of attraction” mean you should state your intention, and visualize the goal as already yours? Nope. Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen. Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you're less motivated to do the hard work needed. In 1933, W. NYU psychology professor Peter Gollwitzer has been studying this since his 1982 book “Symbolic Self-Completion” (pdf article here) - and recently published results of new tests in a research article, “When Intentions Go Public: Does Social Reality Widen the Intention-Behavior Gap?”
Four different tests of 63 people found that those who kept their intentions private were more likely to achieve them than those who made them public and were acknowledged by others. The co-op business model: share whatever you've got. I feel like I know almost nothing about business, because the only business I’ve ever done is the co-op / sharing model. It goes like this: 1. You already have something that people want.
It might be something you own, something you’ve learned how to do, or access to valuable resources, space, or people. 2. Find a way to share it with everyone who needs it. Share because it’s what you do for friends, because it’s the right thing to do, because it makes the world a better place, and because it’ll make you deeply happy. Share as your contribution in return for all the things and ideas that people have shared with you. (If you’re having a bad day, or someone has recently wronged you, you may not feel the world has shared much with you, but here’s a reminder.) 3. My examples: In 1994, the U.S. Point being: None of these things looked like a business venture.
All of them were just sharing something I already had.
The Bulletproof Executive. Clinton. Montaigne.