Cadre Today - Is Mona Lisa Smiling?

But now I know that rose trees never grow in New York City until you see this trash can dream come true. You stand at the edge while people run you through. And I thank the Lord there's people out there there like you. Let's get to the chorus, everybody. Jess. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters. Let's sing it to kickoff this Monday. Hey, Chris Fortman, turn around and say good morning to the night. We'll hit pause right there. We'll play the second half on the way out. Little Mona Lisa and Mad Hat or Sir Elton John to play us in on this Monday morning.

No matter where you are, no matter what's going on, we hope you're doing great. And if you're not at the crazy schedule, sometimes they get to say, hey, how was your day? Versus hey, I hope you're going to have a great day. I got you something. This morning we sang a little Mona Heat, Mona Lisa and Mad Hatter. We're going to focus on the Mona Lisa today. Have you ever seen the Mona Lisa? I know people, when they see it, they go, wow, it's a lot smaller than I thought it was going to be or, wow, it's a lot further away than I thought I was going to get to be to it.

Let me know in chat if you have seen the Mona Lisa in person or by golly, you can even open up right now on Google, type in Mona Lisa and pull picture of the Mona Lisa right now. And I got a question for you. Is Mona Lisa smiling? Here's two questions I got for you. The first one I just asked you. Number one, is the Mona Lisa smiling? That's a yes or no question. The second question is, are you confident that your answer is correct? So if you said, no, Mona Lisa is not smiling and yes, I'm correct, or no, Mona Lisa is not smiling, but I'm not sure.

Or yes and yes or yes and I'm not sure. So they've done a lot of research on how da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa and here's what they've found out. Here's the actual answer. The way that Leonardo painted the shadows, he painted her with smiling shadows. In other words, if you look at Mona Lisa's shadows, you will see because your peripheral vision for right now, I will say, likes to tell partial truths. If you focus on the shadows, Mona Lisa smiling. But then if all of a sudden you look at her mouth, all of a sudden the smile goes away.

And everyone's always like, whoa, is Mona Lisa looking at me? It feels like her Eyes change, feels like her expression changes. The funny thing is, you could say, yes, that is true. Or you could say, well, that's kind of true. If you look at Mona Lisa square in the face, you will never catch her smiling. But if you look at her within your periphery, she'll smile at you. The interesting thing about how our periphery works is that it picks up the nuance. It picks up the, the, the little things. It picks up the essence as opposed to our direct vision which picks up the details.

So if you're not focusing on something, you can pick up on other things. If you focus on something, you can only pick up what is actually there. My invitation for you on this Monday is a look at the Mona Lisa. And C, if you look at her cheeks, if you look aside, you kind of glance over, do you see that she's smiling at you? And if all of a sudden you look at her in the eyes and you look at her in the mouth, all of a sudden that smile goes away. Life works the same way. There are times that we need to look head on at something and see the specifics of what is there.

That's where our answer is. That's where our fruit and our daily bread is. There are other times we need to give a little bit of space. We need to zoom out. We need to allow our periphery and our senses to pick more of what is actually happening. Because I'll tell you, I think it was last week or two weeks ago, and I said in the same, the same three minutes, someone walked up to me and said, jc, there's a light in your eyes. And someone walked up to me and said, jc, you look like the walking dead.

Literally within three minutes, those two comments were said about me, same person. So what is it? I gotta light my eye or do I look like the walking dead? No matter what? Yes. Speak. Wonder. Sometimes it's zoom out. Sometimes it's zoom left, sometimes it's zoom right. Sometimes it's a zoom in. Sometimes it's focus. Sometimes it's don't focus. There's lots of ways to get to where we're going. So no matter where you are today, I invite you to go ahead and use all of your abilities to capture information and to make choices accordingly.

One more time, Mona Lisa's Mad Hatters. All y' all out there, have a good one. Have a good one. Speak. Wonder. Chris. Jessica. Oh, everybody, we'll see you soon.