Editing David Allen (author) (section)

== Careers ==
Allen grew up in [[Shreveport, Louisiana]] where he acted and won a state championship in debate.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/07/organize-your-life/303455/|title=Organize Your Life!|work=The Atlantic|date=July 1, 2004}}</ref> He attended New College (now [[New College of Florida]]) in [[Sarasota]], [[Florida]], and completed graduate work in American history at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name="Berkeley">Keith H. Hammonds, April 30, 2000. [https://www.fastcompany.com/40384/you-can-do-anything-not-everything "You can do anything – but not everything"] Fast Company, retrieved April 8, 2010</ref> 

After graduate school, Allen began using heroin and was briefly institutionalized.<ref name="Heroin">[[Gary Wolf (journalist)|Wolf, Gary]]. September 25, 2007 [https://www.wired.com/2007/09/ff-allen/ Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency] [[Wired (magazine)|''Wired'']] : 15.10</ref> He is an ordained minister with the [[Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness]].<ref>Jack Coats, 2000. [http://www.msia.org/newdayherald/archives/7497-david-allen-ministering-to-the-business-community "David Allen – Ministering to the Business Community"] The New Day Herald online retrieved January 18, 2008</ref><ref>Jack Coats, 2000. [http://www.msia.org/newdayherald/archives/7496-getting-things-done "Getting Things Done: David Allen's Keys to Completion"] The New Day Herald online retrieved October 24, 2007</ref> He claims to have had 35 professions before age 35.<ref>David E. Williams, February 9, 2007 [http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/02/09/david.allen/index.html Cutting through the clutter to get things done] CNN</ref> He began applying his perspective on productivity with businesses in the 1980s when he began consulting at [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed]]'s human resources department.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2007/09/ff-allen/|title=Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency|first=Gary|last=Wolf|magazine=Wired |via=www.wired.com}}</ref>