The How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci Workbook : Your Personal Companion to How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

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Summary: Not up to par with its predecessor
Review: I bought this book because I loved Gelb's book by the same title (not the workbook). I was mildly dissapointed. My advice, skip the workbook and read How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci again!

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Summary: Faced Paced World
Review: I guess we need to keep in mind here that I am a college student. I read this in school. Micheal Gelb, however, does a lot of lecture-type stuff with businesses to increase productivity, etc.

I don't know, but I already apply a lot of these principles in my own life already. I found this book to be redundant because it is, what I believe to be, common knowledge and it is written in a less than intriguing manner.

This would be a nice "reminder" type of book for working, busy people who often forget to stop and appreciate themselves, their surroundings, and the world.

It's just not for me.

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Summary: Sad
Review: Part of this book is for journaling and we've all heard how helpful journaling can be in different areas of our lives. That, however is not what I consider the value of this book.

Flip it over and you have the workbook part of the book. In this section the reader is made to sit down and think. Unlike journaling, where your mind takes you where it wants to go, the workbook gives us assignments.

For instance: Learning from Mistakes and Adversity (who doesn't want to do this?). This section encourages us to explore our attitudes toward mistakes by contemplating questions given. Following the instructions are two pages of questions that the reader must answer. In a word - it makes us think.

The work book also encourages readers to refine our senses. How often do we even consider doing this during the day when we have responsibilities piled upon us, clocks ticking the seconds away, and all the world'sgeneral confusion spinning around us? Not often!

I found this book enlightening, encouraging and helpful.

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Summary: Refining senses in a cluttered, rushed world.
Review: Part of this book is for journaling and we've all heard how helpful journaling can be in different areas of our lives. That, however is not what I consider the value of this book.

Flip it over and you have the workbook part of the book. In this section the reader is made to sit down and think. Unlike journaling, where your mind takes you where it wants to go, the workbook gives us assignments.

For instance: Learning from Mistakes and Adversity (who doesn't want to do this?). This section encourages us to explore our attitudes toward mistakes by contemplating questions given. Following the instructions are two pages of questions that the reader must answer. In a word - it makes us think.

The work book also encourages readers to refine our senses. How often do we even consider doing this during the day when we have responsibilities piled upon us, clocks ticking the seconds away, and all the world'sgeneral confusion spinning around us? Not often!

I found this book enlightening, encouraging and helpful.

Rating:
Summary: Sad
Review: This is very sad book with little merit. A perfect example of an author scamming the reading public. I wish there was some kind of publishing board that could review books and prohibit some from being published.