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"Learn From The World's Greatest Creative Hero Inspire your Renaissance with Lenny From Vinci. Fifteen separate essays chronicle the life of da Vinci, sharing ""Lenny Lessons"" that provide timeless strategies for creatives today. Whether traveling the creative path or admiring the creative process... Lenny From Vinci is for you. Leonardo da Vinci is the world's most legendary creator. His legend is deserved. It's on display in heavily guarded museums, discussed in exclusive universities, and bought by billionaires. That story is about a hallowed master, hollowed out and framed for worship. This story is different. This story is about a left handed kid from the sticks who made seriously good. Someone nobody really expected much from. Somebody who didn't have a real family, wasn't worth educating, and never even got a last name. This story is about a teenager dropped into the middle of the creative game, all by himself. Given the choice to sink or swim, he decided to walk on water. That didn't happen easily. This story is about the messy business of learning. It's about the ugly realities of beautiful creation. Da Vinci's life provides lessons which share timeless strategies for creative success. Drawn from the great artist's life and trials, Lenny Lessons reveal the Italian Renaissance with bright new perspectives for today's creative class. Whether walking the creative path, or admiring what that process produces, this story is for you. Lenny From Vinci is told through 15 Lenny Lessons which share a remarkable journey through astonishing times. Following them, we find a wonderful man who lived long ago. Befriending him reveals his Renaissance era in brilliant clarity, sharing triumphs of human creation... and the triumphs of human character which made them possible. Those triumphs are known throughout the world. The artist who achieved them is worshiped as Leonardo da Vinci. This story is about loving him as Lenny. Lenny From Vinci. Learn his lessons and fly. The Lenny Lessons Lenny From Vinci shares strategies for creative success through 15 different ""Lenny Lessons."" Starting with LDV's upbringing, training and early professional missteps, Lenny From Vinci evolves to explore Lenny's later professional mastery and legendary status. Along the way, listeners learn Lenny Lessons like Pitch Smart, Fail Privately, Digging Is Dangerous, and many more. With this strategy, listeners gain a deeply researched and fantastically entertaining understanding of the Italian Renaissance. Exploring art, politics, business, religion, inventions, innovations, fashion, warfare and love affairs, Lenny From Vinci shares the turbulent excitement of this pivotal time. Lenny Lessons involve some of history's most fascinating personalities. Michelangelo, Cesare Borgia, Machiavelli, Sandro Botticelli, Lorenzo Medici, Isabella d'Este and many others fill Lenny From Vinci, teaching Lenny Lessons all the way. Matching Leonardo da Vinci's extraordinary journey with Hugh Gallagher's wonderful insight, Lenny From Vinci provides a masterpiece of entertainment."

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"Hugh Gallagher wrote the world's most legendary application essay. When his famous College Application Essay was published in Harper's in 1990, Hugh began his professional writing career as a teenager. Features for Rolling Stone and Wired followed, written before Hugh graduated from New York University. Helping establish the emerging voice of his generation, Hugh's work was included in the Gen X Reader. As a television writer, he shared an office with Stephen Colbert at Exit 57, then wrote the script for Spike Jonze's famous Daft Punk video, Da Funk. His novel Teeth was published by Simon and Schuster at decade's end, hailed as ""On the Road for the MTV Generation"" by the New York Post. His comedy performance character Von Von Von earned a standing ovation at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater. Switching lanes into business, Hugh became a brand creative working for Ogilvy, MRM Worldwide, and writing Super Bowl ads at Arnell. His clients include Nike, Microsoft, Amazon, tech startups in Asia, and Adidas in Europe. Writing World Cup creative, Hugh worked at Adidas headquarters in Germany and studios in Amsterdam, then helped create messaging systems for their Fifth Avenue flagship store in New York City. Between these ventures, Hugh published three of of his own books, wrote a sci-fi thriller for Harper Collins, and maintained his journalism by covering Bangkok's 2014 coup d'etat for Newsweek. An accomplished drummer, he has played all over the world, living five years in Asia, as well as two years in Europe and the UK. Hugh's diverse creative history provides unique insight into the life of Leonardo da Vinci."

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