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Weeks for getting in shape from a standing start: a beginner-friendly amount of movement, most days, in slots you'll keep.
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Kurt Vonnegut's Daily Routine
Write 4 hours before your day job begins. Kurt Vonnegut wrote from 5:30 AM, swam before lunch, taught in the afternoon and was asleep by 10:00 PM.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Haruki Murakami's Daily Routine
Finish the big project by running one day on repeat. Haruki Murakami writes from 4:00 AM, runs or swims after, and is in bed by 9:00 PM.
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Le Corbusier's Daily Routine
Keep mornings for your own work and bring it to the day job after lunch. Le Corbusier painted alone all morning, then ran his architecture studio.
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Victor Hugo's Daily Routine
Try a dawn writing session and a cold plunge before lunch. Victor Hugo wrote until 11:00 AM, then poured icy water over himself on the roof.
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Charles Dickens's Daily Routine
Write all morning, then walk for three hours to think it through. Charles Dickens wrote from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM and walked London until 5:00 PM.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Daily Routine
Let your best ideas find you on foot. Tchaikovsky composed morning and evening and walked for exactly 2 hours after lunch, in any weather.
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