Leonard Shlain – Leonardo’s Brain: Understanding Da Vind’s Creative Genius

Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy, and then using state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal nature. Shlain shows that Da Vinci is the only person in human history who has excelled in so many different areas.

Leonardo has a brain. Da Vinci is a starting point for an exploration of human creativity. Shlain brings the listener into the world of history’s greatest mind because of his ability to discern connections in a wide range of fields.

Shlain claims that Leonardo was able to understand and excel in a wide range of fields because of his unique creative ability. Shlain talks about the history and current research on human creativity that revolves around the right brain- left brain split. The left side of the brain controls our rational mind, while the right side controls our emotions.

Shlain talks about the cutting edge research that is refining our understanding of the split brain model and the nature of human creativity. There is more integration between the left and right brains. Shlain believes that Leonardo was unique in showing the degree of integration. He wondered if Leonardo’s brain and creativity presage the future evolution of man.

Leonardo has a brain. Art, history, science, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy unite all of the ideas that Leonard Shlain studied and wrote about. Art and physics. In 1991.