Tonight, We are going to see Dr. Perlmutter, VIP tickets with a reception and discussion afterwards. Dr. Perlmutter is a world class neurologist who lives in Naples and has been featured on Oprah. Should be an informative evening. Since my car accident I am intrigued by the innerworkings of the brain and curious about Neuroscience in general. Susan and I are excited about the opportunity to spend the evening with Dr. Perlmutter.

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Greg,

That does look like an interesting speaker. Thanks for the heads up. I just may try to get down there tomorrow.

Ha! Visit over the holidays… mcaddenville had no snow. Hey, we just scored three nights in the penthouse at Trump towers in Vegas… you guys want to meet out there in between Christmas and New Year?

Hey stranger. Good to see you.

Thanks, I’ve been sitting around waiting for you to visit over the holidays.. :)

Actually mostly my reading the boards time hasn’t much synch’d with my time to write responses. A friendly nudge made me realize I’ve maybe posted once or twice in the last month.

Greg,
good to see you again… it has been a while… what have you been up to?

So my son’s kindergarten teacher knows he likes to figure out how things work (not sure where that comes from) and he reads well; she found a book for him when they were clearing out from the library called:
The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

It’s a well written and illustrated book of how things from simple machines to computers work. I’m enjoying refreshers in it to remind my thinking like remembering there are three classes of levers.

Margaret, if you’d ever like to exchange books, let me know. I tend to read and shelve most of them as there are always books I haven’t read. I may add something along those lines to the INOTC website (I’ve somehow become the IT guy for the Charlotte inventor’s group, p.s. Tomorrow night’s speaker looks to be pretty interesting: http://www.inotc.org/inotc-news/ )

LOL, I suppose I should have Googled it before I spoke :)

No margaret… lol… One “More Thing” is the Movie on Steve Jobs’ life. Is that the same as the book?

No, that’s for the EN Movie Club thread. Just kidding, we can talk about movies too, even tv :)

I watched the movie, “One More Thing”. Is that the same?

Ooooo, some good books to put on my list. Dying to read the Steve Jobs book. What did you guys like about or learn from the books?

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson -————— Highly recommend. Outstanding.
Great thread Margaret!

“This Business Has Legs”
(story behind the THIGHMASTER)
- by Peter Bieler

I think I’m going to read this one again :-)

Enjoy,
- Joey

JoeyAtlas.com

Independent inventors handbook (Foreman/Welytok) and product design and development (Ulrich/Eppinger) both highly informative.

The only invention help book I’ve read so far…. (I’m really a rookie at this) is “One Simple Idea” By: Stephen Key. Very informative, However one thing he said, and didn’t say was this. “Find a great idea and make it an even better idea” Then he didn’t say anything about being careful not to infringe on others patents.

Love this thread, and will be picking up some of these books soon!! THANKS GUYS!!! :)

Yeah, it is just diluted for the mouthwash. That is why listerine commercials say that it kills 99.9% of germs. That is the same schtick as cleaning products unlike other mouthwashes that “leave your mouth minty fresh”. Interesting…

Just read in Daymond’s book that Listerine started out as a floor cleaning product…ick.

I have read both of Daymond John’s books. I liked “Display of Power” but I found “The Brand Within” to be much more informative. He shares in great details how he got to be successful as well as other people who have become successful brands in their own right. One piece of advice that comes to mind is advice he was given by LL Cool J was “stalk like a pregnant woman”! I loved Daymond’s advice on getting the attention of a CEO! I have personally used Daymond’s advice & have been successful in getting a CEO’s attention! “The Brand Within” is the only book I’ve read that has suggestions you can put to use right away! Also want to learn more about Daymond; you should follow him (as he mentions in his books) on Twitter @TheSharkDaymond as well as like his fan page Daymond John on FaceBook.

Thank you for starting this thread Margaret …. " Jump Start Your Brain " by Doug Hall is an old time favorite I always have in the stack by my bed ….

ooh im reading The Power of Being Different- a success formula by John Paul Carinci. A few pages in and loving it.
Thanks for starting this thread Margaret!!!! :-)

I’ll throw two into the mix:

- Hardcore Inventing by Robert Yonover, PHD
- How to License your Million Dollar Idea, by Harvey Reese

Both give “real-world” experiences about the pitfalls along the road to the big league and how not to follow the delusions of grandeur of a billionaire. (Just thought I would add that in Chappy – all in good humor.)

Margaret, I am thirtyseven % through… he just analyzed Jimmy Buffet to fit his item, label, brand, lifestyle model.

I am most interested in books that we can take on and discuss along the way.

For all of us that want that next “BIG” thing, The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell was very informative. A little overdone but still informative.

One that helped me during patent writing is; Patent Law, third edition, By Janice Mueller.

Quick on the draw Margaret… I am in probably be done with this book by Sunday or monday

I’ll start… I know Chappy, Ralph, and I are all reading The Brand Within by Daymond John. Anyone else reading it?