How do creative people work? How do they manage to structure their day so that their daily routines become part of the creative process? When you don’t have enough time for your plans, should you sacrifice everything — sleep, decent income, cleanliness in the house — or can you develop the ability to concentrate efforts, work less is better?
To answer these questions, Mason Curry studied the lives and daily routines of 161 outstanding people, past and present. The heroes of his research are famous writers, composers, painters, choreographers, playwrights, philosophers, cartoonists, comedians, poets, and sculptors. Beethoven and Kafka, Georges Sand and Picasso, Woody Allen and Agatha Christie, Leo Tolstoy and Charles Dickens, John Updike and Haruki Murakami … and doubts, how they ate, slept, talked, walked — in a word, about all those «cunning rituals» that helped them become great.
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