Great article and while I don't think following this advice will exactly make you a genius or anything, it looks like common sense to leading an interesting life.<p>It does increasingly feel like <i>actually</i> being a genius mainly means not caring about whether you are one or not. Just keep working on cool things and let others take care of the definitions.
<a href="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/12/review-how-to-think-like-leonardo-da-vinci/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/12/review-how-to-think-...</a><p>The author of the book examined the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci and tried to figure out the secret of his genius. The result is something he called “seven steps to genius every day”