Daily Routines of Famous Writers

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/20/daily-routines-writers?

by duggieawesome • 13 years ago

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apu• 13 years ago

The book Daily Rituals, from which most of these seem to be excerpted, is a great read into the daily routines of lots of "creative" people of all stripes -- writers, artists, scientists, etc.

http://www.amazon.com/Daily-Rituals-How-Artists-Work/dp/0307...

_neil• 13 years ago

Similarly, Offscreen Magazine[0] has a section in each issue called Logbook. It gives an hourly-ish breakdown of a given day for various digital creators, from waking up to falling asleep.

[0] http://www.offscreenmag.com/

spodek• 13 years ago

Having posted on leadership and personal development without missing a day for three years, I've lived and thought a lot about daily activities.

I haven't researched it, but this article supports what I suspect, that there is a high correlation between successful people and people with daily activities who stick with them -- but not just any routines. They have to challenge you, you have to do them out of personal motivation, and they have to improve you. Personally, I do burpees twice daily, post daily (though I often write many posts per day), and I got this idea while doing cold showers daily for thirty days.

Lately I crystallized a lot of daily habits into one overarching concept that I think has a fundamental role in creating success for many types of people in many fields: the Self-Imposed Daily Challenging Healthy Activity, or SIDCHA, which I wrote more about here -- http://joshuaspodek.com/number-one-best-tool-improve-life-se... -- and will continue to explore. I wonder if SIDCHAs might be a personal development counterpart to the Minimum Viable Product, speaking very vaguely.

StavrosK• 13 years ago

Without wanting to appear "middlebrow dismissive", you can't really reach the correlation conclusion, since we have no data on the daily activities of unsuccessful people.

On the other hand, successful people will have daily activities pretty much by definition, since you very probably will have to be an expert on some thing if you are successful at it (successful amateurs are very rare), and virtually the only way to be an expert at something is to do it every day.

lostlogin• 13 years ago

What is a successful person? I'd use a measure that involved happiness - but I suspect many others would use a monetary measure.

coldtea• 13 years ago

Daily Routines of Famous Writers

Funny, I don't see "check the daily routines of famous writers and copy them" in there.

Daily Routines of Famous Writers

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