Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21444 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 280 pages

Synopsis
Break Out & Express Your Fire. Discover and master the fiery temperament shared by great leaders, entrepreneurs, artists and AD/HD-ers. Are you: - Impulsive? - Risk-taking? - Distractible? - Sensation-seeking? - Insightful or Intuitive? Do you: - Crave risk and excitement? - Have an addictive personality? - Rebel against authority? - Think differently? Then you are a DaVinci. Discover the secret genius that drives risk-takers, rebels, entrepreneurs, artists and ad/hd-ers to achieve greatness. Learn how to express this fire and harness it productively. About the Author Garret LoPorto, has been featured in The New York Times, Money Magazine, The Boston Globe and The London Financial Times. He is a successful entrepreneur, CEO, presenter at MIT, U.S. & International patent-pending inventor, and father of two children. He lives with his wife and children in Concord, Massachusetts.

Customer Reviews

The Davinci Method
Reading this book was like reading a script of my life. Now having read it, gone is all the anger, anxiety and frustration. I am now a successful manager of a small company living in a beautiful part of the world. More importantly, I am happy, peaceful and able to keep a relationship and fit in. I didn't have to change, just understand. This book literally changed my life for the better. You have to see through the Americanized marketing BS which nearly put me off reading it. But now, I'm so glad I did. If you have been told you may have adult ADHD or live with someone who has, you will do well to read this book. Good Luck.

A truly fascinating book. Buy it!
I think that this book is truly inspirational and an excellent source of knowledge for someone that has the gift of vision and action orientation disparagingly referred to as 'attention deficit disorder'

If you feel that there is more to life and your really want to get in touch with your innate potential then you simply have to read this book.

It annoys me so much that just because a person thinks differently than most people he/she is labeled dysfunctional.

The truth is that many of the people that have shaped our civilization have been different and willing to go against the flow and live by their own agenda. Their is a lot of commonalities between those seen as gifted and those diagnosed with add related illnesses.

Rather than chastise the person and try to turn them into a good little worker drone, this book shows you the many positive aspects that you have within you.

It has given me the inner confidence to accept that I am different and need to follow my own path and reach my potential.

A few good gems packed in crap
This book is all over the place, it lacks any real focus and feels more like a tour of emotional manipulation written with bad psedu-science and skim read Freudian psychology. His man focus seems to be an expanded Outsider concept as discussed by Colin Wilson and his excellent book The Outsider.

Garret wants you to feel special and superhuman, that you are a saviour of the world. He does this by picking general traits most of us have at one point or another and combinbing them with a mix of bad Freudian psychology and even worse science. Mixed with badly selected, misquoted or misreferrenced quotes. And then throw in a good dose of the Christian God concept and Amercian Dream capitalism and you get the general idea.

Really if you want to know more about how to feel better being slightly orchestrated, isolated and asking questions such as How Should I Live? Then I offer the following suggestions:
*Try reading Colin Wilsons The Outsider. It has its flaws, but I think it offers a much more conclusive overview of the type of person Garret thiks he is catagorising.
*Try reading something like Rudy Rucker's Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul and understand that live is not so centred or directed on you.
*Try some Erich Fromm, may I suggest The Art of Living or The Art of Loving.