0:00 Popular logic tells us that we should treat our creative energy like a limited resource. If you spend 3 hours chasing an idea that leads nowhere, then you've wasted 3 hours that you could have been working on something productive. But, when you look at the journals of geniuses throughout history, people like Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, the math seems to work the opposite way. They're constantly working on a number of things simultaneously, [music] and a lot of them never lead to anything. But, their focus doesn't seem like it's stolen from one project to the
0:30 next. It seems to spread across them. Look at this page from one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks. On it, he has a drawing of two people embracing, a study of a leg, landscape sketches, [music] and on the notes on the side he has thoughts on canal systems. It's eclectic. There's a lot going on. And this isn't a standout page. This is common throughout his notebooks. He'll put shopping lists and to-do lists right alongside drawings and notes [music] of scientific inquiry or mathematical calculations. He's capturing everything.
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