Leonardo da Vinci's compulsive note-taking and sketching came not from formal training but from genealogical inheritance: as the offspring of a long line of notaries, record-keeping was baked into his reflexes. This reframes prolific documentation as an identity-level instinct rather than a productivity hack. Professions and family lineages literally shape what you feel compelled to capture.
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