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Cal Newport's Daily Routine
Finish your deep work by 5:30 PM and keep the evening. Cal Newport plans every minute of his workday, after a morning run and 25 pull-ups.
Alexander Graham Bell's Daily Routine
Try ending each day on a question. Alexander Graham Bell worked from 9:30 PM to 4:30 AM, set a problem in his mind, then slept until noon.
Paul Graham's Daily Routine
Get a maker's schedule inside a manager's day. Paul Graham did business until dinner, then programmed from dinner until about 3:00 AM.
Thomas Edison's Daily Routine
Keep learning after a full day's work. Thomas Edison was at his lab by 8:00 AM, home for tea at 6:00 PM, then studied until 11:00 PM.
Andrej Karpathy's Daily Routine
Do the most important thing first and keep weekends free. Andrej Karpathy exercises for an hour, has one coffee, then goes straight to his top task.
Demis Hassabis's Daily Routine
Have dinner with your family and still get quiet hours for hard problems. Demis Hassabis starts a second workday at 10:00 PM and peaks around 1:00 AM.
Isaac Newton's Daily Routine
See what total absorption in one subject looks like. Isaac Newton studied until 2:00 or 3:00 AM and often ate standing up. A portrait, not a plan.
Lex Fridman's Daily Routine
Get 8 hours of deep work from two 4-hour blocks, with exercise in between. Lex Fridman runs his day in a fixed order and eats once a day.
Albert Einstein's Daily Routine
Fit a walk and a nap into a serious working day. Albert Einstein walked to work at 10:30 AM, worked until 1:00 PM, then lunched and napped.
Nikola Tesla's Daily Routine
Build a long day around one fixed ritual. Nikola Tesla worked in his lab from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, dined at 8:00 PM sharp, then went back to work.
Paul Erdős's Daily Routine
See how completely one subject can fill a day. Paul Erdős did mathematics from 8:00 AM to 1:30 AM, a pace he kept up with amphetamines.
Kurt Vonnegut's Daily Routine
Working a day job and still want to write? Kurt Vonnegut got four hours of writing done by ten, then swam before lunch and kept his evenings free.
John Milton's Daily Routine
Do your ideas arrive before dawn and fade by lunch? John Milton's routine puts the thinking first, then gives the afternoon to walking and company.
Flannery O'Connor's Daily Routine
Low on energy? Flannery O'Connor wrote just three focused hours a day and finished two novels and 32 stories, a routine that respects your limits.
W.H. Auden's Daily Routine
Be the person who does their sharpest work by lunch and stops on time. W. H. Auden started early, finished firmly and kept every evening for friends.
Immanuel Kant's Daily Routine
Protect your best thinking by doing it first. Immanuel Kant wrote at dawn, taught all morning and saved long lunches and walks for later in the day.
Maya Angelou's Daily Routine
Borrow Maya Angelou's routine of writing in a bare room where nothing else can happen, then coming home to reread the day's pages over a quiet dinner.
Ludwig van Beethoven's Daily Routine
Get your most important work done in one long, unbroken morning, then walk it off. Beethoven composed until mid-afternoon and never worked after dark.
Charles Darwin's Daily Routine
Do your best thinking in fewer hours. Charles Darwin worked in short, focused sessions each day and filled the gaps with walks, letters and rest.
Haruki Murakami's Daily Routine
Finish the long project you keep putting off with Haruki Murakami's routine of writing before breakfast, a hard run every day and bed by nine.
Charles Dickens's Daily Routine
Write two thousand words a day and still keep your evenings, with Charles Dickens's routine of five quiet hours at the desk and a long afternoon walk.
Sigmund Freud's Daily Routine
Learn to fit serious writing around a demanding job. Sigmund Freud saw patients all day, walked fast after lunch and wrote late into the night.
Vladimir Nabokov's Daily Routine
Settle into Vladimir Nabokov's unhurried routine of writing standing up, strolling by the lake and napping after lunch, with room for work all day.
Thomas Mann's Daily Routine
Give your hardest work the freshest hours. Thomas Mann wrote behind a closed door from nine to noon and saved letters and reading for the afternoon.
Gustave Flaubert's Daily Routine
Keep your life orderly so your work can be bold. Gustave Flaubert's routine was as regular as a clock and gave ten long hours a day to the page.
Pablo Picasso's Daily Routine
Make the most of a night-owl body clock with Pablo Picasso's routine of slow mornings, a studio door shut at two and painting well past midnight.
William Styron's Daily Routine
Turn late nights into your most productive hours with William Styron's routine of sleeping until noon, then four focused hours of writing from four.
Honoré de Balzac's Daily Routine
Try Balzac's all-night writing routine when a deadline looms, sleeping at dusk and working through the silent hours while everyone else sleeps.
Franz Kafka's Daily Routine
Stuck in a day job with no time to create? Franz Kafka worked the office, slept through the evening and wrote his best stories after midnight.
Voltaire's Daily Routine
See what total absorption really looks like. Voltaire dictated from bed all morning and worked deep into the night, a routine to learn from, not copy.
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