Table Of Content“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
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“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
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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 email
[email protected] or 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 Duane
Peterson, for always looking out for me and getting me involved.
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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, Mom and Dad for your editing suggestions and for
introducing me to the world that has influenced much of the writing of
this book.
Thank you, Captain John for being my hero.
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