Alina Dragomir
Sep 9, 2018 · 3 min read

Secrets of Leonardo da Vinci | Genius, Codes, Mysteries & Theories

Leonardo da Vinci is the embodiment of the concept of creative genius during the reign of the Renaissance.

The master’s full name is Leonardo di Ser Piero da, Vinci.
This was the son of a rich notary, Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, and Caterina, a peasant who is believed to be working on his father’s estate.
“Da Vinci” means from Vinci, so it is advisable, when its name is shortened, to use Leonardo.

Leonardo da Vinci has a special sleep program that ensures maximum efficiency at work.
With a fragmented sleep, summing up daily only an hour and a half, the genius has practically extended its existence by about 30 years.
Researcher Claudio Stampi wrote in the book “Why We Nap” that the famous inventor Leonardo da Vinci had a unique way of rest. He slept for 15 minutes every four hours.

It seems that one of Leonardo da Vinci’s secrets was a special sleeping formula: he slept 15 minutes from 4 in 4 hours, which is one and a half hours daily instead of eight (with a 75 percent time savings ).
The time he was wasting for sleep could now spend on creativity. The artist has used the polyphase sleep for many years in his life without experiencing fatigue.
All his notes are written in reverse. He seems to have done so to keep his ideas from being stolen.
He developed this technique so well that he no longer needed a mirror to write that way.
He was dyslexic, but this did not prevent him from becoming a universal, and ambidextrous genius, being able to write with one hand and draw with the other in different ways at the same time.
Although something unusual for his time, Leonardo da Vinci was a vegetarian. He had chosen this way of life for humanitarian reasons.
He also used to buy birds in cages from various merchants and release them.

He was fascinated by the human body and finding that place in the body in which the soul dwells.

He dissected many corpses, and these experiments resulted in one of his most famous drawings, Vitruvian Man.
Apart from the fact that the drawing reveals observations related to the symmetry of the human body, it represents the balance between materiality and spirituality, which is found in man.
The figure with four arms and four legs highlights the union between the man and his subtle, spiritual or profound nature, in an active, action-driven manner.
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