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Discipline yourself to boil down your story/new business/phil-
anthropic enterprise to a single page.

Is this easy? Hell, no.

So the next chapter offers a helpful hint:

Three-Act Structure

Break the sheet of foolscap into three parts: beginning, middle,
and end.

This is how screenwriters and playwrights work. Act One, Act
Two, Act Three.

How Leonardo Did It

Here’s the Last Supper in three acts on a single sheet of foolscap:
1. Supper table stretching across the width of the canvas.
2. Jesus standing in the center, apostles arrayed in various
postures left and right.
3. Perspective and background tailing off behind.

That’s all Mr. Da V needed to start. The rest is details.