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• 1. Monika  |  April 1st, 2006 at 10:45 pm

  Dear Garret LoPorto,
  Thank you for putting up that radio conversation. I have in fact bought your book while scouring the net for ADD material, and read it in parts; but the radio converstion made your concepts all the more real and affirming for me. I have struggled throughout all my school years, and recently been feeling like I have a ‘defect.’ It really means something to hear someone embracing the qualities I recognise I have- risk-taking and creativity- instead of focusing on the ones I feel I don’t have that I feel should do, because everyone else around me does.
  I hope you will continue to post any new conversations or pieces of information.
  Sincerely,
  Monika, London.

• 2. Shelly  |  April 6th, 2006 at 12:46 pm

  Thank you for your book, The DaVinici Method! I am an educator with ADD and a new mother of three young children at the age of 45! I totally believe in your theory but I still struggle with the attention part. Why am I so easily distracted with daily routines and by my children? What can I do to overcome this chaos?

• 3. Angela Mateen  |  April 14th, 2006 at 4:20 pm

  Dear Garret LoPorto,
  I am a 51 year old woman living in Georgia. I have 8 grands…and one WAS actively on ritalin for about 3 months……I have always known that ritalin was not the answer but didn’t know what was except that they were indigo children (old souls that has come to uplift humanity to its next level)….How could I explan that without sounding crazy)…WELL!!!! with my newly made purchase of the Davinci Method I know how to explain it now….Your book is AWESOME….I have always had a passion for writing and making plain things concerning spiritual laws through prose, poetry and passages for years…… I have been so directed that I had completed a manuscript but didn’t know what to do with it. I am now meditating on the proper publisher…….

  This talk show really opened up a lot to me about the situation my grandchildren and how important it is for the work God is doing through me to continue.. My daughter is very happy to hear of the hope for her 9 years old. She was giving her Ritalin but now she has stopped. Been off about 2 weeks but she is acting out in school. Teachers are calling saying since she’s taken her off ritalin, they need to set up an appointment to discuss other options. Teacher said she will bring in a psycharistrist or phychologist in the meeting….I guess that is suppose to intimidate her and make her believe that something is wrong with her daughter. My daughter is 29 residing in North Carolina. She is now learning about the Davinci traits that she as an adult and her two boys…5 & 7 as well. She scored 100% on the test and has ordered the Davinci Method.

  By the way, It has been discovered that ritalin has caused strokes in some that were taking it and some lawyers in Georgia are suing the industries on behalf of their clients. The knowledge of this caused my daughter to take my grandchild off this drug. HOORAY

• 4. Anthony  |  July 2nd, 2006 at 8:45 pm

  Garret,

  I just finished reading your book and it is by far the most important information america needs right now. I am 28, and have been trying to figure myself out for years, i also self medicated with ephidrine and other stimulants to try to fit in the social mentality of everyone around me. I have a 5 year old son and can already see the davinci trait in him as well. As i read your book it was like you were inside my head. I am so thankful that you have put this out there, it is long overdue. You have helped me get my life back.
  Thank You
  Anthony

• 5. Dionne Baird  |  October 20th, 2006 at 2:51 pm

  I am so excited to read your book. I am headed to the book store immediately. I have a awesome 10 year old who has been given this gift. It saddens me that our schools are no where near close to seeing this. I refuse to give my A student son drugs to make the teacher feel better. Thank you for opening this door. I will read and rejoice.

• 6. Sandeep D M  |  March 5th, 2007 at 9:24 am

  How can exceess dopmine effect ADD

• 7. Todd Wetzelberger  |  April 12th, 2007 at 3:21 pm

  Garrett,
  I read the book, embrace all of it. Have passed it on to several others as well.

  Please create an online forum/ community that we can all communicate and connect.

  This is so powerful so we can leverage each other’s talents share ideas, let everyone know that there are several others like us out there. I think this would be a huge value added benefit to the book. Even if it’s a paid membership it would be worth it

• 8. James  |  June 28th, 2007 at 6:58 am

  Hi Garret, first of all, thank you. I am 25 years old, trying to figure myself out since 15; I live in Central America, in a country where the shadow of a war is still strong; Thankfully for what you can call ‘underdevelopment” and a ‘less evolved society’ I have been able to stay and grow wild; founded my first business at 20 and now going for a second round after a wonderful rise and fall – and now rise again – After being way far from normal (which at the same time gives me mega super powers with and for the ladies and a very fair dosis of charisma) and a traumatic experience I fell into depression; I realized that the hardest part was to know what you really want ,while reading your book I had this several ‘Aha’ moments where God knows how many associations came toguether in my mind because all my life I tried to be more ordered with structure But Now I’m Free…and It is beautiful, I am happy, going to publish a book with my poems in spanish, business growing, can’t handle so much hot smart girls and for the first time willing to help people help themselves; So cheers for the parachute, the boots, the passport, the handshakes and the kisses..

  Thank you with all my heart, Garret; I have come alive.

• 9. wissame  |  July 24th, 2007 at 8:08 am

  hello mr garret,i’m a physician from lebanon,i was trying to get ur e mail,to contact u,if u please send it to me @ the above email. thank you.

• 10. Caron Lee  |  November 28th, 2007 at 12:10 am

  That radio descussion was really great, I’ve ordered your book and I know it will help me. I have been trying to figure myself out for many years, I am 27years old and would most likely be diagnosed with ADHD today. I have all these amazing ideas and I want to do so much, I find I am distracted by my thoughts throughout the day, and find myself falling behind on the mundane things that a mother should be doing. (I have 2 children) I believe your book will help me and give my family some relief, as my mother has thought there was something mentally wrong with me my whole life, Cheers mum!! I new I wasn’t crazy.

• 11. Pat Buffum  |  February 6th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

  Are you still actively speaking about The DaVinci Method and if so, where can I tune in to listen to you. I find this fascinating. I think you are talking about me.

• 12. Julia Baker  |  February 6th, 2008 at 5:42 pm

  Thank you Garrot La Porto you are our angel. I am an indigo and a Divinci. I have been tormented and blocked all my life. I have struggled with not fitting in! You are making it possible for all to understand us! With understanding there can be growth and healing! I so yearn to connect with more people and show them I only want to free them from thought form contigincies
  that hold them in bondage.

  Tattered and torn they come one by one
  They,ve not the eyes to see what they,ve done
  Once they are healed they,re hearts are their shields
  Please come home you are not alone!
  This is the way I pray, this is the way I say I LOVE!

  Bless you,
  ~Julia~

• 13. bernice  |  February 11th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

  Hi garret.
  Recently I’ve did the personality test posted on your blog and I’ve scored 100%. I’m a 14 year-old girl living in Singapore and I’ve always thought that there is a reason to my maddness all along. Since young, I’ve always felt different from the other kids that I socialise with and tend to often space out from the rest if I’m not in the centre of attraction. Somehow I find that there’s no true “connection”. This year, the pupils in my cohort are being segregated into their different classes depending on their subject combination. I can’t stand my class! Not that they are mean or anything but there’s really no “connection” compared to my previous class where I feel “alive” at most times. My current class is just boring. They do crack jokes every now and then but I just don’t feel with them. Sometimes I just feel like I’m watching a movie from a submarine and I don’t even feel that I’m actualy in the present at all. I sleep in most of my classes, either that or I’m daydreaming. I have a weird temperment too. I’m either very bored or I’m hyper/eccentric but most of the hyper-ness comes when I’m reunited with those I really have “connection” with.

  I don’t think I’m enjoying my life at this moment. My parents and teacher perceive me as an ill-disciplined, messy, impatient and forgetful child. My math tuitor often scolds me for being bored during lessons and claimed that I do not have the right attitude to do work. I love math. In fact I do love most of the subjects that I learn but somehow I feel “oppressed” during lessons. I need the “momentum” to do math. If I were given a stack of sums, initially it would take very long for me to get the first few questions to be done but subsequently I’ll speed up and do it super fast. But it takes the correct “mood” for this “momentum” to be cultivated. When being accused for being ill disciplined, bad attitude etc ( and the list goes on), I tend to defend myself and will then be labelled arrogant.

  I am super easily distracted and can’t really concentrate on things like homework and projects. Worst, my score in elementary school got me posted to a top school in Singapore and there’s so much expectations from the teachers. As my GPA ain’t high enough to meet the standard for the subject comination I wanted, my parents tend to use this as a “rebutt” when I try to defend myself such as ” If you are that smart..why didn’t you make it into triple science?”

  I know there’s more to me. There’s something different in me compared to the others. BUt right now, I just feel miserable in my everyday life. I’m not getting anything done at all, I’m not free, I hate my life. Pathetic huh.I feel as though I’m trapped in myself. Worse, I think that my entire family are davinci types but they keep denying themselves. They keep telling me its the “attitude” but I guess what they said to me were more for their own ears .Also, I do have most of the ADHD symptoms but my parents are in denial and attribute it to my attitude. Sometimes I cry, even in a fine sunny day, even when no one offends me. I just can’t find myself.

  How do I get out of this submarine?
  If you don’t mind could you also share some tips for Davinci type teenagers?( like how to survive school and stuff)

• 14. R.A.L. West  |  May 19th, 2008 at 8:23 pm

  Dear Garret,
  I’ll be getting the book this week, only heard about it few days ago.
  I’ve thoroughly explored this site and DaVinci Nation, in the past 2 hours. I can hardly express how heartened I am by your fabulously creative take on your subject and its entangled issues.
  I am nearly age 65, a professional artist and healer most of my life, so I have been fortunate to have enjoyed a lot of expression and a certain amount of acknowledgment of my temperament. Still, I feel so heartened and empowered by just the beginnings of some advanced and up-to-date tools to leverage my prodigious energy into greater and more satisfying visions made tangible!
  Your gift and how you are manifesting it are truly a blessing for this time. The first I ever heard of children being medicated I became actually nauseated. I have ever attempted to live my greatest possible ALIVENESS, with peaks and valleys; and I can see this work “giving permission” to the culture at large to do likewise.
  Thanks for the data on our school system…always felt that way to me, but never had such facts.
  Is DaVinci Nation a non-profit??
  Thanks for email with the Mensa riddle, too. I felt a tangible satisfaction solving it…I will look for more.
  When I was reading Anais Nin’s Diaries, so long ago, I was always intrigued by her references to her work with Otto Rank, but never felt enough was disclosed, clearly enough.
  Some keywords of my life have been integrity, coherence, congruence…perhaps now I can write a song with them
  Sincere thanks,
  RAL*

• 15. patrick (from Ireland)  |  May 26th, 2008 at 3:03 am

  ill have to buy your book, i just dont have a CC! isint it funny how we can buy more things with credit nowadays….funny world!?

  anyways, ive recently self-diagnosed with the posibility of having Add, ive all the classic triats but thank god i was just seen as a giddy child but i have had re-ocuuring problems of ‘fitting in’ which is crazy as ive also been the most productive in school or work,…. gettin up and getting into a solid routine are hard,

  thanks for the tipps via mail, maybe u could give some more out…. ‘wink wink…nudge nudge’… i will go for my walks in the morning from now on! then ill be more relaxed and make the most of the day!

  i hope u can come speak in ireland sometime, im sure it would go down a treat!… and maybe ill be able to get the book from a local booksellers, ill get them to order it in!

  all the best mate,…

  Paddy

• 16. Jorge Turenne  |  August 16th, 2008 at 1:02 am

  For the past two year, a group of different people have come to the conclusion that ad and adhd are forms of beeing, like havinga blue eyes. They are peiple full of petientiality thata casue panic in teachers and parents, becasue eof theurir freedom to learn and creat new ideas. So we have in his end priod a researsch, helping this children with flour essebces (Chilean Methot of Bach flower approach) with great improovmente in the quality of life of this children. The whole reqction is emotional, is a reaction of not beein accepted as you are. Is prejudice in pure condition.
  Soon, we will publish the final report of our research, that changes Rotalin or Anfetamin tratment with an energetic aproach basead on Chilean system of flour essences.

• 17. william martin  |  August 16th, 2008 at 2:31 am

  Thank you for sending this to me-it came at the right time.

• 18. Lizette Mc Guckin  |  August 16th, 2008 at 7:50 am

  It is not me witH ADHD but my 9year old grandson.We seem to have hit a brick with what to do next.We are home schooling him as he is too disruptive at shool.He has been classed as gifted and We feel school is better for him as he is sociably isolated at this time.Your book helped overall but not in the short term.However we continue to battle for his good

• 19. HAYDEN HARTLEY  |  August 17th, 2008 at 12:42 am

  amazing, hyperfocus?…ive not read your book yet but recieved two emails from you….how you got my email address, even more ammazing. tell me what you know of “hypersense”….im riddled with “add”…or “adhd”…and have a gift in emotion….overwhelming…”emotion”….ive learnt that im “eq”….emotionally intelligent, interlectual inteligence or “iq”…..frustrates me….,. at times my emotional sense have become that heightened, usually in times of threat or fear….Have you heard of “EQ” PHYCIC”…..i can feel peoples emotion….my senses at times heightened to a state thats not of this world. my voice, my hearing, my reflexes,…… i say things and they happen,……ive not read your book, ive recieved two emails from you ,the first yesterday……ive not heard of you before…to say the least im a little intreged. please tell me more….
  ive battled the world and its spiritual parrallel…for what seems like an eternity…..and not found a place to “be”…the combination of “add or “adhd”…..and a heart
  way too “soft”…for the places ive been…only to “tag” myself as an “emotional misfit”…………

  KIND REGARDS
  HAYDEN HARTLEY
  perth WA.

  author of “TELL MARY”…………love, lie & angels….

• 20. Brooklyn Masters  |  August 17th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

  I like listening to you.

  Luckily for me I get to listen to your recordings as many times as i need to to get it all.

  Thanks again
  Brook

• 21. Brent  |  August 18th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

  I agree with you 100%! In our blended household we have 5 of 6 people with ADD/ADHD. We range in age from 14 years old to 53 years old. Needless to say it is an interesting household to live in!

  Why do we keep trying to drug our ADD/ADHD children into being more like the normal people? Instead, we should be promoting the fact that they have a gift and find ways to stimulate them. Moving classrooms outside is a wonderful idea!

  My biggest problem with ADD/ADHD is not the ADD/ADHD but the publics perception of it as a learning “DISABILITY”. I submit to you that it is the so called normal people who are learning disabled. If we as people gifted with ADD/ADHD “get it” the first time it is taught, why is that a disability? I see that as a gift! When teachers have to go over the same information again and again so everyone in the class understands it, they have lost the ADD/ADHD student after the first or second time! One of the problems with the education system today is the fact that they don’t get it. They do not understand how someone who appears to not be paying attention can know what they know. I had this exact comment from one of my sons teachers in Grade 8. she said to me “I don’t know how he knows what he knows because he never pays attention.” I told her, “He had it the first time you taught it but you lost him the second and third time you went over the same information”. It then appears to the teacher that he is not paying attention. He isn’t paying attention because he is bored! He then finds something else to occupy his mind such as getting up and wandering around the classroom, playing with his pencil, building paper airplanes and flying them around the room or bugging the other students. This then labels him as disruptive.

  He is most definitely a Da Vinci and I see nothing but success for him if he can find something besides XBox that he is passionate about. I see it as my privilege to aid him in his search.

  I realize that changing the education system is going to be an uphill battle but it is definitely one that needs to be fought.

• 22. Isabel Ca�orino Portugal  |  November 20th, 2008 at 12:18 am

  Dear Garret LoPorto,

  I am portuguese and I’ve got a 10 years old son with ADD or ADHD who is struggling a lot in school because here in Portugal there’s very little information on the subject. People call my son “mentally ill” and no one tries or wants to give him the same opportunities as other children have. I fight every day to go against all odds but is so difficult here in Portugal because nor the medical class or the school system know anything about this problem. So… why dont you take a plane, fly to Lisbon, and give a lecture here in our country in a notorious school. I promise to show you this wonderful city and in return you show other people, especially those from the “system that rules” how wonderful people with adhd are. I know you must be laughing but the world needs urgently people like you with a credibility to say: “It’s a gift not a disease.” So come along… take a step forward and spread your word to the whole world starting here in Portugal … a country deaf on ADHD.

  A mother desperate for help! HEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPP!!!!

  Isabel

• 23. Leonie  |  November 20th, 2008 at 6:32 am

  Hi Garret

  I am also in the same boat as Isabel. I am in South Africa. My son is only in grade 2, and was suspended from school. For something he did not do, but because he was known to be a distractive child ect., with the result he was blamed out of 2 other Kids. As a working parent i sent my mother to see the teacher and principal, she was given a number of another school for my child. Alot of schools and family & friends have no clue what ADHD is all about. They need to be educated on this. Even if you have a Talk Show on world T.V. I REALLY AM SICK OF THE IGNORANCE TOWARDS ADHD.

  PLEASE HELLLLLLLLLLPPPP!!!!
  Leonie

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