Becoming the Leonardo da Vinci of my life.

 Becoming the Leonardo da Vinci of my life.

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Leonardo da Vinci describes himself as an 'ignorant scholar' and a 'disciple of experience'.

Leonardo da Vinci, who had no formal education, criticized people who depended on ancient knowledge and chose the method of direct observation and study.

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"Although I don't have the ability to cite other authors like them, I instead rely on something much more valuable: experience."

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During his lifetime, he reiterated the claim that experience was more important than knowledge passed on.

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"He who seeks the source does not have to go to the water jar."

For this reason, he differed from the typical Renaissance man who actively embraced the revival of knowledge through the rediscovery of classical works.

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Medieval scholastic theologians fuse Aristotelian science with Christianity to create a recognized doctrine, which leaves no room for skeptical questions or experiments. Even early Renaissance humanists preferred to copy the knowledge of ancient texts rather than verify them.

Leonardo bid farewell to the old tradition of scientific research, usually by finding patterns by observation and then studying the validity of those patterns with further observation and experimentation.

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Thanks to the printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg, Leonardo da Vinci became the first major figure to acquire profound scientific knowledge without formal training in Latin and Greek. Leonardo, who had no formal education and depended only on experience, began to balance his deeper and more powerful learning and realization by acquiring another great tool of knowledge.

His interests were broad: military machinery, agriculture, music, surgery, health, Aristotle science, Arabian physics, the lives of famous philosophers, the poems of Ovid and Petrarch, and the fables of Aesop.

 

Leonardo Davichi, who was filled with curiosity, kept a record of the books he wanted to borrow or wanted, and went to ask anyone who owned the book he was curious about. Not only that, he liked to get knowledge from the Dar people.

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Thus, Leonardo became a disciple of both experience and transmitted knowledge. Above all, he came to know that scientific progress is made through two dialogues, and further realized that knowledge is created through dialogue between experiments and theories.

It was also Leonardo who advocated the modern research method, which combines theory, experiment, and existing knowledge and continuously verifies it by comparing it with each other.

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"People who focus only on practice without knowledge of theory are like sailors who have no rudder or compass and do not know where they are going. Practice should always be based on valid theory."

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Leonardo, who said he was an ignorant and a disciple of experience, surpassed himself once again like this.

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The extraordinary ability to combine experiment with theory, Leonardo's keen observation, fanatical curiosity, experimental study, courage to question doctrines, and the ability to see patterns in a variety of fields became prime examples of what led to the great leap of the human intellect.

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Leonardo is called a genius.

He was a thoroughly crafted genius.

If he had any talent, it was his frenzied multiplicity of curiosity and terrifyingly polar and sharp observation.

His persistence in observing and researching the things he was curious about, what he needed to know and learned, even after spending 20 years of time, in the end, he was not a superpower, but a product of perseverance made through hard work.

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You can know without seeing or seeing.

His life, every moment, may have seemed like a time of pain in the eyes of others as it was filled with efforts that were close to painful enough to stick his tongue out, but he himself knew that it was a happiness that surpassed his own.

Rather than calling Leonardo a 'genius' and assuming that he and I are different people, there is no gap between him and me.

Through his life, he shows that the gap must be filled through his interest, curious eyes, and intense observation. Just as he filled his life with his studies and experiences, I think I should learn his attitude towards life and become the Leonardo of my life.

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"The river that has reached your hand is the last of what has passed and the beginning of what is coming. It is the same with time... Look at the light... Blink your eyes and look again. Now you What was seen in the original was not there, and what was originally there is no longer there."