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Daily Routines of Famous Writers

by duggieawesome on 12/29/13, 7:09 PM with 6 comments

• by apu on 12/29/13, 7:34 PM

  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...

• by spodek on 12/29/13, 11:02 PM

  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.

• by _neil on 12/29/13, 10:40 PM

  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/

• by coldtea on 12/30/13, 5:07 AM

  >Daily Routines of Famous Writers

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