Garret LoPorto’s DaVinci Method Blog

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• 1. Benjamin DeKraker  |  May 17th, 2007 at 1:10 am

  Great point here, Garret.

  Something has always bothered me about success books that recommend “focusing only on exactly what you want”…. Did Richard Branson at age 17 sit down and say, “I am going to be a billionaire?” Did Steve Jobs?

  I don’t think so. They followed their passions and enjoyed the ride. Huge distinction.

• 2. Gary Clouse  |  May 22nd, 2007 at 12:25 am

  I feel some sympothy for people who can’t enjoy the sound of a bird singing while they contemplate a piece of art as their favorite song plays in their head and they enjoy being reminded of childhood by the taste of ice cream… though they aren’t eating it at the time! What ever my problems, I am thankful that I am not trapped in that little box!

• 3. David Williamson  |  May 23rd, 2007 at 8:49 am

  You made me cry. :)

  i dunno. i was looking around at entrainment websites and i had typed in adhd because i read in make magazine’s article on constructing a sound/light entrainment machine that theta and delta entrainment can exacerbate adhd.

  of course, this seemed totally counterintuitive, given my previous successes with meditation and so forth.

  My girlfriend is going through a lot of crap tonight. she’s always had problems with severe insomnia and she’s also an avid artist, making among other things, ceramic jewelry and acrylic paintings. Meanwhile, she’s trying to get an associates in psychology because she wants to help people out. now, her art and tools and her are all crammed into a minuscule studio apartment which her job doesn’t really help her afford.

  and so now, she’s a month behind on rent and the next month’s payment is due this week. Meanwhile her car broke down in front of a grocer across town. I think she said she has forty dollars to her name. it really is quite maddening.
  this upcoming semester, she’s planning on taking three courses on top of her job and I honestly don’t know if she can pull it off.

  I will be out of town, taking classes at a college seven hours away, trying to learn about the solar industry and things. i’m going to be undertaking a two year program to give me an associates degree. i’m also studying HVACR (heat transfer) by reading a textbook i found, so when i’m through with that, i’d like to take the EPA’s mandatory certification course. I have no doubt that solar panels and air conditioners would be a match made in heaven.

  i was intrigued by what your banner said. it reads like a scary resume. it reminds me of claims made by certain people, so i feel like i know you in a vague respect. I listened to the secret to the secret and i thought a lot of things you said were really beautiful. the analogy you drew to the boring movie just seemed so perfect for that moment, because it reminded me of my girlfriend and myself. struggle struggle. and what you said about love…

  i believe everything is interconnected, but i don’t know if i would say that everything as a whole has an “intention” or that it’s here for an intentional reason. (God) but you know, it’s here.
  it’s here.

  and i think that when we use terms like “purpose” and “intention” and “plan” and “good” to talk about reality as a whole, we’re really just using the best words available to us to try to describe something that we can’t comprehend, but who could deny the intuition of such things?
  i mean, after all, it is here. isn’t it?

  i don’t know. i don’t know if it’s all planned out and the synchronism’s of life are there FOR us, but they’re there anyway, aren’t they?

  i was telling someone earlier tonight that the highest satisfaction we could find in life is through service. and when other’s “prayed” tonight, i “hoped” that when people (from the holy men to the militants) saw their fellows, that they would see their mothers. that they would see their children. that they would see their savior.
  so. you hit home when your secret behind the secret was love. it’s odd the way we always keep returning to that point, isn’t it?

• 4. Ceanlia  |  January 5th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

  Thank you for being a ‘real’ human out there prepared to share the truth.. and not ice-cake…
  You make so much ’sense’…
  I read your book, over and over.
  It looks like I’m studing for an exam… it has pencil marks, high ligthed areas and notes on the sides…
  I feel at home, at last.

  Thank you

  Ceanlia

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