How to procrastinate like Leonardo da Vinci 

Academe is full of potential geniuses who have never done a single thing they wanted to do because there were too many things that needed to be done first: the research projects, conference papers, books and articles — not one of them freely chosen: merely means to some practical end, a career rather than a calling…

If there is one conclusion to be drawn from the life of Leonardo, it is that procrastination reveals the things at which we are most gifted — the things we truly want to do. Procrastination is a calling away from something that we do against our desires toward something that we do for pleasure, in that joyful state of self-forgetful inspiration that we call genius.

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    interesting. I should probably...share this with any fellow college students or all...

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    i’m just a girl: How to procrastinate like Leonardo da Vinci

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    i deeply wish for this to be true.

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    well, there you have it…

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    I highly doubt I’m a genius, but this is how I’ve been feeling lately. I don’t want to go to school anymore and I want...

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    How to procrastinate like Leonardo da Vinci Academe is full of potential geniuses who have never done a single thing...

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    I’d like to think this way… my paper’s already a week and a half late! :X

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