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#430: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creative Path: Saying No, Trusting Your Intuition, Index Cards, Integrity Checks, Grief, Awe, and Much More

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Organizing and Planning

Mister kisco was my ninth grade social studies teacher. He taught system that involved index cards and a box to put the index cards in. And then every time you find a fact or piece of information on a page, you would write one fact per index card. So that way you can mix up the cards, and you can still remember where everything came from. In order, i've taken that system, which was used for researching, and i've grown it into a system that i use for writing my novels. My novels are very research based. Every single idea and every single fact got its own card. Each fact goes in the filing system under whatever subject, whatever area is....

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