Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
by Mason Currey
One hundred and sixty-one short profiles of how writers, composers, painters and scientists structured their days: when they rose, how long they worked, what they ate, what they did to avoid work. The pattern is that there is no pattern except a routine of some kind, and that is the useful lesson.
Read it if…
you want permission to design your own routine rather than copy a famous one.
Skip it if…
you want a method; it is a catalogue of what worked for others.
Three things you will actually use
- Almost everyone productive had a fixed routine; few had the same one.
- Mornings dominate, but not universally.
- Walks appear in nearly every profile.
Do this first
Note the three routines closest to your temperament and borrow one element from each.
Our verdict
No pattern except routine.
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