Can I Get a Bit of Leonardo daVinci's Genius?

     Can I get a bit of Leonardo da Vinci’s genius?     
     The guy was centuries ahead of his time with his inventions of flying machines, submarines, scuba suits, machine guns, and military tanks. And his paintings are a standard by which art is still evaluated. Could I have just a part of his brain?     
     I can! We all can!     
     At an exhibit commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of Leonardo’s death, I learned we can gain a piece of his brilliance by practicing unquenchable curiosity.     
     “Leonardo may have been the person with the greatest amount of curiosity of any human who ever existed,” biographer Walter Isaacson says. In Leonardo’s notebooks we discover the Fifteenth Century Renaissance man is wondering what the tongue of the woodpecker looks like, how people can walk on ice, and why the sky is blue. He’s like a two-year-old, raising questions nonstop - a trait we sadly outgrow.     
     But Leonardo never did.         
     Researchers say that only one-fourth of one percent of people are geniuses. Yet any of us can increase our knowledge by asking who, what, where, when, why, and how.     
     We may not master the mysteries of the universe, but we’ll be filled with an awesome wonder of it.     
​     All by asking questions.