If you want to be great then you have to think great.

While growing up, I was always fascinated by the men and women who managed to accomplish something great and beneficial to humanity. Something so great that generations and even centuries later, their names still ring strong in people's minds and literature.

Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin are all names we've come across in our lives, yet most of us aren't aware of the types of ideas, theories and inventions they created that help to excel us as humans within our current society. But what did they accomplish that made them so great?

I may or may not know why, but that's not what this article is about. This is about thinking and acting like these men while they were still growing, developing, learning, excelling and finally mastering their craft. It's about trying to get in their mental perspective and walk in the shoes of someone who eventually became 'great'.

Leonardo da Vinci was a man who marked the world far beyond his lifetime. He made some valuable contributions to the hometown he grew up in, but it was his artwork that would outlive him. The principle behind electric doors that are present in department stores was one of his ideas. The principle behind the lamps and bulbs that have the ability to operate with varying degrees of power was another of his ideas, as well what most people are familiar with are his drawings of what he called "flying machines". While some would categorize da Vinci as a genius, from various biographies it is clear that da Vinci had a gifted mind but it was not what many would classify today as an exceptional one. So what was it that separated da Vinci from the rest of his fellows?

It was a principle that is noted very early on in the journals that da Vinci seriously began to write in while he was in his early '20's. He lived by a principle lifestyle called OSTINATO RIGORE which means a stubborn, relentless and persevering work ethic. That is what da Vinci did. Once he started working on a project or a certain pursuit, he would not let it rest until he had completed it. This is what made him one of the masters of the world as we know it. He was one of the prevailing voices of the Renaissance. It was through his commitment to this principle that he allowed science, art, military strategies, and machinery to be forever changed - because he stayed with it.

Like many aspects of life I have read and studied about in regards to 'greatness' from our human past, I have adopted Ostinato Rigore into my life. Fuck being average. I'm not saying I want to be honored and known for generations to come but I also don't want to fade into the black. Just be another person on this struggle. I want to know that my life had some sort of value, any kind of meaning at all. So I've learned, studied and adopted from the greats. I mean, they must of done something right.....

Ostinato Rigore World!

Be constantly rigorous in everything you do in your life!

Experiment, excel and learn to manipulate life to give you the results you want!