all the others, some of which were designed by a certain leonardo da vinci - you might have heard of him - were coverted up and transformed into, you guessed it, roads. but hey, the good news: the city plans to reopen eight kilometers of these forgotten treasures. tell me about the actual process. it seems like an enormous project to uncover all of these canals. i guess the citizens also deserve that you explain the consequences, right? do you find that a lot of the milanese are surprised to learn that there are canals under some of the roads? the younger generation maybe doesn't even know about this. they know? he's just riding his bike and coaching the rowers. that's awesome, man! that's so cool. - the idea, of course, is to recreate places as vibrant as the naviglio grande all around the city and even in the periphery. but the project also serves environmental and sustainable purposes. historically, did you have the same problem of flooding in the north and agriculture in the south without much water? were the canals... okay. but that's the point. okay. could this be a new identit

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. >> i think they are related in some ways, he wrote a great book about leonardo da vinci in which he says how could anybody be as curious as leonardo was intellectual curiosity so i think the powers of observation are somewhat related, i think intellectual curiosity is a great thing being able to observe is to, what is it about the comedians that make them so funny and they go back and describe it. there into the related and very important. >> i will try some other one what is more important to success as you found in your own life and those who are smart or hard work. >> no doubt about it, hard work. >> there's a lot of smart people who are doing nothing these days, they are brilliant, when you went to school i don't know if you were first in your class but whoever was first and it wasn't you, what happened to them, there was a lot of brilliant people i met in junior high and high school and some of them haven't been around for that much, it's hard work, nobody ever got anywhere just by basically walking around and not working hard, if you don't want to work hard, you're knocking to