Thinking a bit further about an old post and how Leonardo DaVinci’s incredible ability to innovate was a function of his practice of discovery and experience, I thought about the idea of “strength in numbers.” We as humans generally are a pack oriented society.  Individuality is often shunned by society (arguable but think about mass appeal).  Ironically, mass trends do not magically appear from out of the blue, they transcend from a source….in other words some sort of individuality.

It seems to me that DaVinci, as aloof as he may have been and innovative without doubt; he must have had some sort of support to realize his fanciful ideas or perhaps he just didn’t care what others thought.

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