What if you had a sure-fire way to turn challenges and uncertainty to your advantage? What if you could side-step the mental shackles that hold you back?

What if you could invigorate your life with new passion, vibrancy and creative mojo? What if you could transform your life into a rich tapestry of learning, exploration and accomplishment? Wht if you could soar to heights you never dreamed possible?

That and more is achievable when you dig into Michael J. Gelb’s awesome new online course, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci. It’s based on his best-selling book of the same name.

Gelb, one of the world’s foremost creativity experts, believes that creativity is every person’s birthright. His course provides a compelling framework to help you reclaim it.

We live and work in an era of unprecedented change and uncertainty. The traditional ways of thinking, planning and problem solving don’t work very well anymore. To be successful today, we need to rethink our assumptions and how we solve challenges and discern new opportunities.

We’re endowed by our creator with more gifts than we can use in a lifetime. But we tend to be held back by fear, uncertainty and inertia. So most of us never realize them. What we need is a catalyst to help us uncover and develop them.

Michael Gelb’s one-of-a-kind course is the ultimate guide to cultivating an expanded mindset for enriched, abundant, creative living.

How the course is structured

Gelb has invested most of his adult life doing a deep dive into da Vinci’s art, inventions and writings, even traveling to the cities in Italy where he lived and created his most famous works. From this lifelong immersion, Gelb has developed powerful insights into how we can employ da Vinci’s incredibly creative mindset in our lives today.

Gelb wrote his masterwork about this multifaceted genius over 20 years ago. Since then, he has taught it in workshops around the globe, refining and improving it along the way.

The How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci course isn’t just a collection of facts, information and best practices but a rich tapestry of insights and ideas that parallel the approach of the artist who inspired it.

The course consists of 38 videos covering 7 principles of da Vinci’s thinking.

Each chapter is structured like this:

• The first lesson introduces the concept and provides a high-level overview of how you can apply it to your life
• The next lesson contains a self-assessment that empowers you to reflect on how that principle is woven throughout your life.
• That’s followed by a series of explorations where Gelb presents you with questions and thinking exercises that are designed to help you think in new ways. Not surprisingly, he urges you to record them in a notebook. In my opinion, these exercises are the most valuable part of the course because they help you to think in new, creative ways.

Each lesson is inspiring, energetic and entertaining. Gelb’s energy brings the lessons of his book to life in powerful ways. His passion is infectious! He weaves together stories from da Vinci’s rich and multifaceted life, His life lessons and stories from students who have completed his training. Each lesson had so much to teach me that it never got pedantic or boring. I found myself frequently stopping the lessons to take notes.

The entire course was filmed in a studio that’s filled with replicas of da Vinci’s work. It looks remarkably like a room in an Italian villa. This elegant setting, which comes to life in various ways to help make key points throughout the course, adds a visually stunning dimension to Gelb’s energetic teachings.

Here’s a brief overview

Why do da Vinci’s teachings matter today?

One of the questions you’re likely asking yourself is, “How can a brilliant inventor who lived 500 years ago help me today?” Gelb connects the two effortlessly. It turns out that da Vinci lived through the Black Plague that decimated much of Europe. That eventually led to the Renaissance.

As Gelb explains it, the Plague forced scholars and other learned people to rethink long-held beliefs – much like we’re being forced to do today by the changes caused by COVID-19!

Gelb has studied da Vinci’s work at such a deep level that he’s able to effortlessly connect the writings and insights of history’s greatest inventor to contemporary challenges and creative opportunities. Gelb is the ultimate guide to the master’s work.

Who is Michael Gelb?

He is one of the most well-respected authors in the field of creativity. As the former publisher of the world’s largest innovation and creativity website (InoovationTools.com) an someone who has studied and written about creative thinking and problem-solving for over 20 years,

I’ve been following his work for a very long time. He’s the real deal, and it shows in the quality of the material in this course!

My unexpected epiphany

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I dug into the How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci course, but it turned out to be a transformative experience for me!

During the last several decades, I’ve been passionate about learning about and sharing creativity tips, tools and techniques. This course has helped me to realize is that there’s much more to creativity than I ever imagined.

Reflecting deeply on what I learned from this remarkable course, I came to a startling revelation: My tools-based approach represents an “outside-in” approach to creativity. In other words, you’ve got a creative challenge? Pull this tool out of your mental toolbox and put it to work to devise a solution. It’s not something you live but something you apply only when the need arises.

In contrast, Leonardo da Vinci’s mindset, which Gelb teaches in this new course, is an “inside-out” approach h. By cultivating the attitudes and mindset he teaches, you’ll discover new ways of looking at and considering the world around you – and experience life through a profoundly different set of mental lenses.

Conclusion

The e-course format is a perfect medium to do a deep, engaging and enjoyable dive into da Vinci’s principles of creative thinking – understanding the simple truths that underlie them, how to apply them and the rich benefits of doing so.

Leonardo da Vinci lived a life of remarkable richness and nuance that is hard for us to imagine today. But Gelb brings it to life in ways that we can apply it to enrich our lives today as we live through our own scientific, cultural and creative renaissance.

During a time of accelerating change and great uncertainty, this course is a much-needed mindset reset.

Ultimately, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci is a powerful catalyst that can help you expand your vision of what’s possible, claim your creative birthright and achieve more, while seeing the world around you in a profoundly different way!