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Ali Abdaal's Daily Routine
Protect your mornings and share your meals. Ali Abdaal's daily routine puts 4 hours of deep work before a 2-hour lunch.
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Casey Neistat's Daily Routine
Finish something every day, not someday. Casey Neistat's daily routine in 2015 had one deadline: a new vlog posted at 8:00 AM.
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Georgia O'Keeffe's Daily Routine
Start slowly and finish work early. Georgia O'Keeffe's daily routine: a half-hour walk before breakfast and supper at 4:30 PM.
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Hayao Miyazaki's Daily Routine
Decide your start time once and never again. Hayao Miyazaki's daily routine in 2013: at the studio at 11:00 AM sharp, six days a week.
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Jane Austen's Daily Routine
For anyone making things in a busy shared home. Jane Austen wrote in the family sitting room, after making breakfast at 9:00 AM.
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Kazuo Ishiguro's Daily Routine
Finish a first draft by clearing a month. Kazuo Ishiguro wrote most of The Remains of the Day in a 4-week sprint called the Crash.
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Octavia E. Butler's Daily Routine
Set a daily minimum that doesn't depend on motivation. Octavia E. Butler's writing routine: at least 4 hours of writing before her day job.
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Simone de Beauvoir's Daily Routine
Work 7 hours a day and still see your friends. Simone de Beauvoir's writing routine: two shifts with a long social break between.
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Toni Morrison's Daily Routine
For parents with a full-time job and a book in them. Toni Morrison's writing routine began at 4:00 AM, before her children woke.
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Ursula K. Le Guin's Daily Routine
Write all morning and keep the afternoon. Ursula K. Le Guin's writing routine: from 7:15 AM, then reading, music and an early night.
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Winston Churchill's Daily Routine
Get two working days out of one, with a nap in the middle. Winston Churchill's daily routine: sleep from 3:00 PM, then work after dinner.
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Alexander Graham Bell's Daily Routine
End the day on a question, not an answer. Alexander Graham Bell's daily routine: night work from 9:30 PM, then a problem set in his mind before sleep.
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Brian Chesky's Daily Routine
For people whose best ideas arrive after dinner. Brian Chesky's daily routine: no meetings before 10:00 AM and late evenings for thinking.
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Nikola Tesla's Daily Routine
For long working days that need one fixed point. Nikola Tesla dined at 8:00 PM sharp in 1896, with a stack of 18 napkins.
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Paul Graham's Daily Routine
Group your meetings and give the making one long stretch. Paul Graham's 2009 essay on the maker's schedule came from a day split at dinner.
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Steve Jobs's Daily Routine
Anchor a long week on a few fixed meetings. Steve Jobs's daily routine at Apple: an executive meeting at 9:00 AM every Monday.
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Thomas Edison's Daily Routine
Keep learning after a full day's work. Thomas Edison's daily routine in 1901: a day at the lab, then 4 evening hours of study.
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Flannery O'Connor's Daily Routine
Make 3 focused hours a day enough. Flannery O'Connor's writing routine started at 9:00 AM and left the afternoon for rest and her peacocks.
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Franz Kafka's Daily Routine
For anyone writing around a full-time job. Franz Kafka's writing routine: a long sleep after work, then writing from 11:00 PM.
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Gustave Flaubert's Daily Routine
Keep life orderly so the work can be bold. Gustave Flaubert woke at 10:00 AM and wrote at a round table, afternoon and night.
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Honoré de Balzac's Daily Routine
Write in the quiet while everyone else sleeps. Honoré de Balzac's writing routine began at 1:00 AM and produced some 90 novels, stories and essays.
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John Milton's Daily Routine
For minds that compose best before dawn. Blind, John Milton built Paradise Lost in his head from 4:00 AM, then dictated it to an aide.
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Kingsley Amis's Daily Routine
Write well without an early start. Kingsley Amis's writing routine: 2 sittings from 9:30 AM, with a pub lunch and a nap between them.
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Le Corbusier's Daily Routine
For anyone crowded out by other people's requests. Le Corbusier painted alone every morning and reached his atelier at 2:00 PM.
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Ludwig van Beethoven's Daily Routine
Finish your creative work before mid-afternoon. Ludwig van Beethoven's daily routine: 60 beans to every cup of coffee, then composing until 2:30 PM.
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Maya Angelou's Daily Routine
Write somewhere that isn't home. Maya Angelou's writing routine: a bare hotel room by 7:00 AM, with a dictionary, a Bible and a deck of cards.
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Pablo Picasso's Daily Routine
Work with a night owl's clock, not against it. Pablo Picasso shut himself in his studio from 2:00 PM and painted on into the small hours.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Daily Routine
Get your best ideas on a walk, not at the desk. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's daily routine: a 2-hour walk, never cut short by even 5 minutes.
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Richard Strauss's Daily Routine
Ease back into work after burnout. Richard Strauss's daily routine on his 1892 rest cure: 4 hours of composing and a 10-hour night.
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Sigmund Freud's Daily Routine
For people whose days belong to other people. Sigmund Freud's daily routine saved his own writing for after 10:30 PM.
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Thomas Mann's Daily Routine
For anyone whose best thinking comes before the inbox. Thomas Mann's writing routine: 3 hours behind a closed door from 9:00 AM.
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Victor Hugo's Daily Routine
Do your hardest thinking before lunch. Victor Hugo's writing routine ended at 11:00 AM with icy water poured over himself on the roof.
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Vladimir Nabokov's Daily Routine
Spread your writing across a long, unhurried day. Vladimir Nabokov's writing routine: 3 blocks, 2 walks and Scrabble in Cyrillic.
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Voltaire's Daily Routine
Get words down by talking, not typing. Voltaire's writing routine: dictating to a secretary from bed and not dressing until noon.
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William Styron's Daily Routine
For people whose minds wake late. William Styron's writing routine: 4 hours from 4:00 PM, until 200 or 300 words were done.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Daily Routine
Make room for your own work at both ends of a job. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed before teaching and again at night, often until 1:00 AM.
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