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Daniel Ek's Daily Routine
Give your first 4 hours to family, exercise and thinking. Spotify's Daniel Ek wakes at 6:30 AM and doesn't start work until 10:30 AM.
Bryan Johnson's Daily Routine
Go to bed early and the morning becomes yours. Bryan Johnson is in bed by 8:30 PM, up at 5:00 AM without an alarm and exercising by 5:30 AM.
Tim Cook's Daily Routine
Own your first 2 hours before the meetings start. Tim Cook wakes before 5:00 AM for email and sales data, then trains for an hour.
Brian Chesky's Daily Routine
Keep your best hours for your best ideas. Airbnb's Brian Chesky starts slow, books nothing before 10:00 AM and saves 9:30 PM onward for creative work.
Jack Dorsey's Daily Routine
Give each weekday one kind of work and switch less. Jack Dorsey woke at 5:00 AM to meditate, walked 5 miles to work and ate once a day.
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.
Mark Cuban's Daily Routine
Cut the meetings and there's time to play every day. Mark Cuban works almost entirely by email and plays an hour of basketball each morning.
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.
Le Corbusier's Daily Routine
Bring fresh ideas to your day job by keeping mornings for yourself. Le Corbusier painted alone until two, then walked into his architecture studio.
Victor Hugo's Daily Routine
Try the routine behind Les Misérables, with Victor Hugo's writing at dawn, a cold bath at eleven and an afternoon of hard exercise to clear his head.
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.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Daily Routine
Become someone whose best ideas arrive on foot. Tchaikovsky composed morning and evening and walked for exactly two hours in between, in any weather.