CHAPTER 4
LEAD WITH A QUESTION
The Wisdom Principle
You’re never going to learn as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.
—CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
Is it possible to create a perpetual motion machine, one that could work infinitely without an external energy source? Science tells us it’s impossible, that it would violate the laws of thermodynamics. But could it be done anyway? Leonardo da Vinci took a stab at it, sketching designs, using fluid mechanics, for a “self-filling flask.” But ultimately, he failed to produce a working machine.1 Centuries later, Nikola Tesla put his powerful mind to the task. This was a mind that had produced volumes of innovative texts and inventions, including 80 US patents that revolutionized entire industries. ...
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