Leonardo da Vinci was the ultimate multi-tasker: an accomplished scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician, and writer. If you want to be a Renaissance Man (or Renaissance Woman), you can learn a lot from how Leonardo da Vinci lived and thought. Based on studying the life and work of this famous polymath[1] anyone can emulate da Vinci with the following steps.

 

1. Curiosità. Curiosità is an "insatiably curious approach to life and unrelenting quest for continuous learning". Great minds have one characteristic in common: they continuously ask questions throughout their lives. Leonardo's endless quest for truth and beauty clearly demonstrates this. What makes great minds different is.....

Earlier today, I shared several lists of recession-proof jobs. The experts who created these lists don’t agree on much, but they do seem to think that both jobs in IT and the health-care industry are fairly safe. That doesn’t mean that all of these jobs are safe, of course. I have two friends who combine [...]

Earlier today, I shared several lists of recession-proof jobs. The experts who created these lists don’t agree on much, but they do seem to think that both jobs in IT and the health-care industry are fairly safe. That doesn’t mean that all of these jobs are safe, of course.

I have two friends who combine both of these: they’re IT workers for health insurance providers. One of my friends still has his job. The other will be laid off at the end of the year. I’d be scared in his situation, but my friend seems to be taking it fine. In fact, I thought about his attitude when I read an article on layoffs recently.

Over the weekend, USA Today ran a fascinating story about the lives of 15 people who used to be managers at a Louis Rich turkey-processing plant in Visalia, California. These folks lost their jobs during the recession of the early 1990s, during which parent company Philip Morris closed the plant and laid off 1,450 workers.