Alejandra SolÃs
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Elizabeth Gilbert:
Did you have an experience (or set of experiences) in your twenties that helped you realize what you wanted your life to become? Were your twenties the time for defining this or was it later in your life?
Elizabeth Gilbert
I spent my twenties working really hard on my writing. It's not that I didn't go out and get wild at times, because I did, but I was incredibly focused on pushing myself forward into my work. I was ambitious and hungry, and I wanted to make something of my life. But the best thing I did for myself during my twenties was to travel like crazy. Instead of bogging myself down in a good responsible and respectable job that would have taken up all my time, I moved from menial job to menial job, saving up money to buy plane tickets and go see the world. I wanted to study the world, and I studied it seriously � with a notebook in hand, writing down all that I saw. Those adventures were the basis for my first two books, and without that range of experience, I would have had nothing to write about.
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