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Card IX: Leonardo da Vinci

Write with curiosity

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Sep 15, 2025
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What if your writing didn’t start with a headline or a hook…

…but with wonder?

What if it didn’t need a clean argument or a tidy thesis?

What if it was just based on a question that kept tugging at your sleeves?

This is the spirit of Card IX: Leonardo da Vinci.

But not Leonardo the master.

This is Leonardo the curious obsessive.

The version of him that’s the q…

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