Leonardo da Vinci possessed insatiable curiosity and a willingness to be curious about things that ordinary people stop noticing after childhood—he exemplifies how creativity can be cultivated by nurturing natural curiosity rather than accepting the socialization that teaches children to stop asking 'dumb questions.'

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Speaker

Walter Isaacson

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“leonardo teaches us that to be creative all we have to do is nurture that natural curiosity we all have inside of us”

Source

What You Can Learn From History's Greatest Innovators | Walter Isaacson | The Knowledge Project 121— The Knowledge Project Podcast
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:30:56 PM

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