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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.
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.
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.
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.
Benjamin Franklin's Daily Routine
Become someone who plans every hour on purpose, with Benjamin Franklin's routine that opens with a morning question and closes with an honest review.
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.
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.
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.
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.