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#652: Famed Explorer Wade Davis — How to Become the Architect of Your Life, The Divine Leaf of Immortality, Rites of Passage, Voodoo Demystified, Optimism as the Purpose of Life, How to Be a Prolific Writer, Psychedelics, Monetizing the Creativity of Your Life, and More

The Tim Ferriss Show

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"I've never indulged writer's block," he says. "You have to create rhythms in every line, you have to end every paragraph with something that's going to make the reader want and it becomes unconscious." His wife wouldn't bother to edit or look at anything; she was a great reader. He advises young people to study nonfiction as much as they do music. 'The only things that I've found about life is that each stage of your life has its own story'

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