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“Set your genius on Fire; And come alive! Create. Discover. Lead. The world needs Light. And you, my friend, Carry a torch.” Garret LoPorto The DaVinci Method ~ Preview Edition ~ Version 1.37 ©2005 All Rights Reserved. Visit us at www.DaVinciMethod.com This book is copyright 2005, with all rights reserved. It is illegal to copy, distribute, or create derivative works from this book in whole or in part, or to contribute to the copying, distribution, or creating of derivative works of this book. By continuing to read this book you, the reader, implicitly agree to the following statement: I understand that the information presented in this book is for educational purposes only. Therefore, if I wish to apply ideas contained in this book, I take full responsibility for my subsequent actions. The author and publisher make no representation or warranties with respect to the accuracy, applicability, fitness, or completeness of the contents of this book. I, the reader, am responsible for my own behavior, and no aspect of this book shall be considered to be medical, legal, business or authoritative advice in any way. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~ Howard Thurman [American clergy, civil rights activist & mystic] “Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte A portion of the proceeds from sale of this book goes to: endorsed charity partner of: About the Author Garret LoPorto, writer, speaker, U.S. & International patent‐ pending inventor, and successful entrepreneur who has been written about in The New York Times, Money Magazine, The London Financial Times, The Boston Globe and many other newspapers. He and his projects have also been featured on national television, including CNN and ABC, and on Nitebeat, MIT TV and New England Cable News. He was the founder and CEO of a multi‐million dollar technology & media company. He has worked in Microsoft Research – a prestigious think tank where some of the most gifted thinkers perform advanced work in computer sciences. He has done speaking engagements at such venues as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Massachusetts and The Computer Freedom and Privacy Convention. To find out if Garret LoPorto is available for your speaking engagement, please call 800‐827‐1230. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts with his wife, Heather, and their children. To my son, John. Acknowledgments Thank you, John for being my greatest teacher and the one guy who can show me my deepest faults and my most tender wounds. You are the one who has shown me the way. Thank you, Heather for being my inspiration, the yin to my yang, and my best friend. Thank you for helping me make this book happen. If it weren’t for your kindness, your patience, your belief in me, your tireless listening, and your editing of this book, The DaVinci Method may have never been finished. Thank you, Marty Sussman for being such a good friend and mentor. You helped me open doors I couldn’t find the courage or the strength to open myself. You were generous with me when you didn’t need to be and you helped me find the will to do this work. You were the one who told me “You gotta do this!” regarding writing The DaVinci Method – albeit in a dream, (so now I may be thanking you for something my unconscious actually did, but you filled the archetype wonderfully). Thank you, Ava for being a most delightful distraction. Your charming beauty and sparkle have almost rendered this book impossible. Your 2 AM & 5 AM wake‐ups made me a vegetable for 9 months. It is rare to find someone so captivating and endearing that one is willing to lose everything for another moment in her presence. You my dear – along with your beautiful mother – are that someone for me. Thank you, Ben Cohen for being a great role‐model. Your insistence that I always ask the question “what for?” before embarking on a mission has saved me many useless journeys. Thank you, Andrew Greenblatt for being like a big brother to me. Thank you ii Duane Peterson, for always looking out for me and getting me involved. Thank you, Russell Bishop for being a great teacher. Your honesty, impeccability, and inner‐trust have inspired me. Thank you, Valerie Bishop for being there just when I would need a word of wisdom. Thank you, Thom Hartmann for having such a striking sensibility in our talk over nachos with Marianne in DC. You helped me to discover your thoughtful work, through which I remembered my own. Your work is one of the proverbial giants whose shoulders this work stands upon. Thank you Marianne Williamson for welcoming me into your life with such faith, showing me what the author’s life is really like and encouraging me to become one myself. Thank you to Otto Rank for developing the most amazing therapy, sadly forgotten by history, but joyfully resurrected here. Thank you, Dave LoVecchio for reminding me of the “rats in the basement.” Thank you, Beth English for your kind consulting. Thank you, Mom and Dad for introducing me to the world that has influenced much of the writing of this book. Thank you for your editing suggestions and thank you for buying one of the first copies. Thank you, Captain John for being my hero. And thank you for supporting this book the way you did.
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