#369 Happiness - Creating Myself in The Image of da Vinci's Mona Lisa
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is considered by many to be the greatest of all paintings. For many, da Vinci's artistic greatness is attributed to the ongoing refinements of his paintings. What would it take to create ourselves in the image of a fantastic human being? Are specific skills and methods for humans who achieve the highest level of self-actualization? Come and explore how we all can create ourselves into a living masterpiece.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness Podcast, I'm Dr. Robert Puff. If you haven't heard the most |
| 0:09.8 | expensive painting ever sold in history at the point of this recording is Leonardo's |
| 0:16.2 | Salvador Mundi. It's a portrait of Jesus and it's magnificent. Most likely you have heard of that story, |
| 0:25.0 | but what you may not have heard of is that in the Louvre, |
| 0:29.0 | Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world by Leonardo da Vinci is insured for 800 million dollars. |
| 0:37.6 | I can't confirm that, but I heard it from a very reliable source. |
| 0:42.4 | So do you ever wonder why his paintings are worth so much and why |
| 0:47.1 | he's considered one of the greatest artists that's ever lived? What what you may not know, |
| 0:52.0 | unless you're an art buff like I am is that Leonardo da Vinci would start |
| 0:57.1 | painting something and then keep painting it, keep touching it up, redo it, paint it over again, keep painting it, redo it again, |
| 1:05.0 | and sometimes for years. |
| 1:08.0 | It said he carried around the Mona Lisa with him |
| 1:10.0 | for many years, |
| 1:12.0 | kept touching it up and kept improving on it over the years. |
| 1:16.2 | And clearly, it worked. |
| 1:18.8 | So how do you create a beautiful painting like the Mona Lisa? Well it takes a great artist for one who has |
| 1:25.4 | absolutely brilliant skills and two it takes a lot of time and effort |
| 1:31.1 | redoing, retouching, making it just right. That's the secret of a great painting |
| 1:39.0 | like the Mona Lisa. So the question you may be wondering is Dr. Puff, what does this have to do with me? |
| 1:46.0 | Well I want to ask you a question first. |
| 1:49.0 | Pause for a moment and think of the person, whether it be throughout history or currently in your life right now, |
| 1:58.0 | that you feel is the most amazing person you know of. I don't mean by accomplishments, but I mean by they are |
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