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A Popular Feel For Scientific Endeavors Should, If Possible, Be Restored Given The Needs Of The Twenty-first Century. This Does Not Mean That Every Literature Major Should Take A Watered-down Physics Course Or That A Corporate Lawyer Should Stay Abreast Of Quantum Mechanics. Rather, It Means That An Appreciation For The Methods Of Science Is A Useful Asset For A Responsible Citizenry. What Science Teaches Us, Very Significantly, Is The Correlation Between Factual Evidence And General Theories, Something Well Illustrated In Einstein's Life.

What Are The Five Products You Want To Focus On? Get Rid Of The Rest, Because They’re Dragging You Down. They’re Turning You Into Microsoft. They’re Causing You To Turn Out Products That Are Adequate But Not Great.

If You Just Sit And Observe, You Will See How Restless Your Mind Is. If You Try To Calm It, It Only Makes It Worse, But Over Time It Does Calm, And When It Does, There's Room To Hear More Subtle Things - That's When Your Intuition Starts To Blossom And You Start To See Things More Clearly And Be In The Present More. Your Mind Just Slows Down, And You See A Tremendous Expanse In The Moment. You See So Much More Than You Could See Before. It's A Discipline; You Have To Practice It.

Leonardo Da Vinci Had Such A Playful Curiosity. If You Read His Notebooks, You'll See He's Curious About What The Tongue Of A Woodpecker Looks Like, But Also Why The Sky Is Blue, Or How An Emotion Forms On Somebody's Lips. He Understood The Beauty Of Everything. I've Admired Leonardo My Whole Life, Both As A Kid Who Loved Engineering - He Was One Of The Coolest Engineers In History - And Then As A College Student, When I Travelled To See His Notebooks And Paintings.

I Think One Problem We've Had Is That People Who Are Smart And Creative And Innovative As Engineers Went Into Financial Engineering.