The Ultimate Leonardo Da Vinci Sketch Thread

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10 Carl Jung Quotes You Need To Read:

1. "I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force." https://t.co/SVRqoOLpPTtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2. "We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy."

Attila the Hun and his Horde army were marching past the fortress of Aquileia in Italy.

They had been waiting for the right time to attack but it never came...

As Attila took one last look at the fortress before moving on, a swan soars high over the fortress toward him... https://t.co/YCQppmMmoytwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
At this point in time, Attila and his Hun army had been ravaging Asia and Europe.

This fortress could pose a challenge to the Horde though.

It was extremely well fortified.

Leonardo da Vinci was commissioned to construct the largest horse statue in the world.

It would stand a total of 26 ft tall and weigh 70 tons.

But things went south when the French rolled into Milan and used his sculpture for target practice... In 1482, Da Vinci was asked by the Duke of Milan: Ludovico il Moro to build a bronze equestrian statue.

The sculpture would be erected in honor of the Duke’s father: Francesco Sforza.

It was going to be a colossal project.

“Where is everybody?”

Asked Enrico Fermi as he sat down to have some lunch with friends.

But he wasn’t talking about humans… The year was 1950.

Fermi, along with some friends were sitting down for lunch at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Fermi was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who contributed to the development of the first nuclear reactor and the Manhattan Project (atomic bomb).

10 Teachers You Should Know About:

1. Friedrich Fröbel (1782-1852)

He was the founder of the concept of 'kindergarten', pioneering the understanding that early childhood is a crucial period for learning.

His teaching methodology focused on play, activity, and creativity. https://t.co/v20foLWTGxtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2. Sal Khan (1976-present)

Founder of the Khan Academy, which has a mission of providing a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

They are well on there way, offering counltess online courses that have helped many get through school itself!

Benjamin Franklin invented a lot.

But one invention was used by the greatest composers of the 18th century…

Mozart, Beethoven, and Strauss all composed music for his instrument.

Franklin's invention:

The Armonica (yes, that’s spelled right)

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Around the middle of the 1700s, Franklin was spending a lot of time in both London and Paris.

He had been serving as a delegate for colonial America.

While over there, he witnessed a lot of cool things…

10 "Film Noir" Movies You Need to See

1. The Big Sleep (1946)

Private detective Philip Marlowe gets entangled in a web of mystery, deceit, and what might be love, as he investigates a captivating case.

(your mind will be scrambled by the end) https://t.co/EHefVIwGMftwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2. Double Indemnity (1944)

An insurance agent falls under the spell of a seductive housewife, leading them both into a perilous plot of insurance fraud and murder, triggering the watchful eye of his astute colleague, an insurance investigator.

(really good movie)

You know those pictures of children covered in dirt working during the Industrial Revolution?

Well, Andrew Carnegie was one of those kids.

His childhood was darkness.

But one day a single ray of light glimmered as a beacon of hope.

What was the ray of light?

Books

When Carnegie made it to America from Scotland in 1848 (he was 13), things were rough.

His father struggled to find a job so he was forced to help support the family.

Work was brutal.

An oracle makes a prophecy.

She says that whoever can unravel the Gordian Knot, will go on to rule all of Asia...

Guess who rides into town next?

Alexander the Great https://t.co/20sZX73RLCtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
First off, the year is 333 BC and the story takes place in the Phrygian capital of Gordium in modern day Turkey.

There was an ancient wagon within the city that was supposed to have belonged to Gordius, the father of the famous King Midas.

The yoke's knot was tightly bound...

10 Writers and One Book You Need to Read

1. JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968)

-East of Eden

This sprawling novel explores the intertwined fates of two families, echoing the biblical story of Adam and Eve's downfall and the destructive rivalry of Cain and Abel.

(his magnum opus) https://t.co/Ln043yJsBqtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2. CHARLOTTE BRONTE (1816-1855)

-Jane Eyre

It’s a captivating tale of love and resilience as a young orphaned governess navigates a tumultuous life - it basically lays out the female hero’s journey.

Warren Buffett made a list of four books that had the largest impact on him.

Three of them were by his mentor, Benjamin Graham.

The fourth was Adam Smith’s "The Wealth of Nations"

But who was this Adam Smith guy? What's his story? Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and many famous wealthy individuals have praised Smith over the years.

He's often considered the Father of Economics.

Side note: technically his book is called "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"

Spartacus’s wife walked into her bedroom and was shocked.

A snake was coiled around Spartacus’s head as he slept.

It was prophesied that this meant the man was going to gain tremendous power but perish in an unfortunate end.

And that is EXACTLY what happened… Not much is known about Spartacus’s early life.

His story basically begins with his time serving in the Roman army.

At some point, he either deserted or was caught leading bandit raids, so he was sold into slavery.

12 Philosophers and One Idea You Need to Know

1. IMMANUEL KANT

Categorical Imperative:

An action is morally right if it can be considered a universal law that applies to everyone, in all situations, without any logical inconsistencies. 2. RENE DESCARTES

“I think, therefore I am”

You can doubt nearly everything in the world as not being real: whether you’re awake/dreaming, math, logic, etc.

But you can't doubt the act of doubting itself.

Doubting is a form of thinking, and in order to think, you must exist.

In 1839, the first public school was established in the United States.

Big deal, right?

Well, guess who was doing this 2,500 years earlier and founded the first-ever public school?

Confucius twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Confucius was born in 551 BC in Lu (now largely the Shandong province in China).

Although his ancestors had once garnered a high social standing, the family he was born into was flat broke.

His father was a warrior and had 9 daughters and a club-footed son before Confucius.

Mansa Musa was rich.

How rich?

$400, $500, $600 billion in today’s money?

We don’t know the exact number...

But we do know that he crushed the entire economy of Cairo when visiting because of how much gold he brought with him… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… There’s a lot of rich and powerful Empires throughout history:

-Han Empire
-British Empire
-Roman Empire
-Mongol Empire
-Spanish Empire
-Ottoman Empire
-Achaemenian Empire

But many forget about the Mali Empire which Musa ruled over from c. 1312 - 1337 AD.

Frostbitten feet.

Bordering on starvation.

Shaking with cold.

George Washington stares ahead with unwavering determination.

His army is crossing the Delaware River and there’s no turning back… The day was December 26th, 1776.

Morale was low throughout the Continental Army.

The Americans had just lost a few significant battles against the British:

-Battle of White Plains in October

-Battle of Forts Washington and Lee in November

Constantine the Great was born into Chaos.

Invasions, civil wars, and disease consumed the Roman Empire.

All of that ended though when Constantine was struck by a flash of light and three words painted in the sky... Constantine was born c. 270 AD.

The times were so bad that the period was considered the Crisis of the Third Century.

In an effort to smooth things out, Emperor Diocletian distributed power to a four-ruler tetrarchy and they would govern the four quarters of the Roman Empire.

Have you ever had a profound insight and then looked at the clock to see 11:11?

Maybe you can remember thinking about someone and then they called you the next minute?

Just coincidences, right?

Well, these experiences are referred to as “synchronicity” by Carl Jung… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… In one of Jung’s therapy sessions, he was dealing with a serious, highly-educated, and rational woman.

Jung knew that if he was going to get through to her, something “irrational” would have to happen - an unexplainable coincidence.

One day Jung’s patient was...

5 Psychologists and One Theory You Should Know

1. Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

The Collective Unconscious:

The collective unconscious is a theoretical construct proposed by Jung, which suggests that there is a deeper level of the unconscious mind shared by all individuals. 2. Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936)

Conditioned Response:

Pavlov’s theory asserts that behaviors can be learned through repeated associations between stimuli and responses, with conditioned responses being elicited by previously neutral stimuli through conditioning processes.

There are a lot of kings called “the Great”

- Alexander the Great
- Ashoka the Great
- Constantine the Great
- Cyrus the Great
- Frederick the Great
- Peter the Great
- Ramses the Great

But only one English monarch was deemed “the Great”…

ALFRED THE GREAT Alfred was honored with “the Great” in his name because of many things.

But his most important achievement was when he prevented an island-wide invasion from vikings and created a cohesive Anglo-Saxon culture as a result.

Things didn't start out too bright for Alfred though...