How to be a genius like Leonardo da Vinci — it's real!
Albert Einstein and Sir Issac Newton also.
Gain your knowledge through imitating others. The word “Imitation” will come more and more in this article.
So, let’s learn first what imitating is!
As follows In google search, the meaning of imitation is — “to copy the behavior of somebody/something”.
To copy somebody’s idea into your own creativity, or master many skills through copying the knowledge and wisdom of the most skilled person.
As we birth, we are so dumb, we don’t know anything or anyone. We gradually learned from our parents, society, and surroundings.
We are the outcome of some of the environments we leave or experience. These works for the online world also.
Most knowledgeable persons imitate from their hero’s or one who is best in that field.
We all admire, respect, and learn from, the people we want to look, live and think like them.
Mohammad Ali imitates from their hero’s, but with little change. He can’t create or copy their moves, so he recreates their own moves, with certain ideas from their master.
We almost live alike who of the person whom you want to be like. It’s a matter of fact that, you made some changes, and that would be your own style.
The books, online articles, movies, or artworks allow us and grant us to learn from your hero, whom you want to imitate.
Just modify in somebody’s idea or thought process, can originate creativity.
People get wrong on, from imitating for someone. Imitation doesn’t mean only copying, it applies in your life, in the right way, in your life.
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. — Albert Schweitzer
Austin Kleon writes wonderful observations, and thoughts about creativity, in their book “ Steal like an artist”.
He wrote about creativity, imitating from others, and creating your own family tree of knowledge in their book.
He also wrote another book, by compiling the newspaper in a beautiful and blackout manner. After the book came, people told them that he copy from others and he also talks about how “nothing is original”, by explaining the ancient use of the formatting of the book he wrote, in his TEDx talk.
Leon Battista Alberti is the role model of Leonardo da Vinci, who was also an architect, engineer, mathematician, painter, philosopher, athlete, and an excellent musician.
Vinci imitates from their heroes and executes in their own life and we called Vinci was original. After all, Vinci was the legend of legends, and did tons of work, that I could possibly imagine.
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Final Thoughts
Making a completely original thing is quite hard and after gaining knowledge from others, it could be achieved.
In the end, do ever only run for originality, gain knowledge from others and originality came through, by experiencing someone work.