I want to tell you a story about one of the darkest moments in my life that turned into a real breakthrough for me as a writer. And this is a tip of the hat to my great friend and mentor Norm Stahl. Here's a story. I was in New York having tried to write a novel, two novels, and I was really at the end of my rope totally disorganized, couldn't do anything. And I had a friend who actually I knew from an ad agency that I had worked in, who I really admired his name was Norm Stahl. He was like maybe 15 years older than me. A wonderful writer, a documentary, and he's done like 400 documentaries. And what I really admired about Norm was there was no bullshit to him at all. When he had a concept of what he wanted to do, he just did it. He didn't dittle around. He was a real man of action. It still is to this day. I asked him to take me out to lunch and we went to a place called Joe Allen's in the theater district. And I just sort of poured out my heart to him how lost I was. I was totally screwed and didn't know what to do. Just couldn't get my act together. Couldn't get started. And so Norm reached into his little ditty bag and he pulled out one of these yellow sheets of paper, what they call a fool's cap paper, a legal pad. And he said to me, and these are the words, he said, Steve, God made a single sheet of yellow fool's cap to be exactly the right length to hold the outline of an entire novel. And then at that moment, I felt like a lightning bolt hit me in the head. And I've used that concept ever since I just called it a fool's cap method. And I'm going to talk about this. I'm going to do a few more videos about this. I'm going to do like five or six of them go into real detail. But the gist of it was the idea that you didn't have to write an entire Bible of your whole story. Put it all on one page. If you can boil it down to one page and this goes to anything, building a house, starting a new business, anything. If you can boil it down to one page, and use that discipline, you can get your feet on the ground and get started. So more to come in the next weeks about the fool's cap method. Thank you, Norm Stahl, for saving my life.