If you were to read about a man whose “interests were so broad, and he was so often compelled by new subjects, that he usually failed to finish what he started”. and  who was “notoriously unreliable at completing commissioned works.” Would you be thinking something like: “What a loser! No way could he be successful. Just making a bad name for himself like that.”

If you’re a scanner, maybe you’d also be thinking, “Sounds a lot like me. I’m a loser too. I keep jumping from one thing to another without finishing. Messing up my life. No-one’s going to remember me when I’m gone.”

I expect you’d much rather be like the man who was described as “An all-round genius whose paintings and inventions changed the world” and “the foremost creative mind of his time.”

Well those descriptions are all about the same person, Leonardo da Vinci. So you see, it is possible to be very unreliable, and a failure at completing things, yet still be world famous 490 years after your death.

Extracts from: http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/magi.html and http://www.mos.org/leonardo/bio.html

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