{"id":7213,"date":"2013-10-18T03:25:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T03:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2013-10-18T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T14:18:58","slug":"significant-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/significant-breaks\/","title":{"rendered":"interspersed with significant breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oliver Burkeman reviews Daily Rituals<\/em> by Mason Currey<\/a>, which looks at the daily routines of famous creative people (benjamin franklin, georgia o’keefe, proust, etc.). the common patterns among them:<\/p>\n

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  1. be a morning person (though in theory i am more into the proust model: “Marcel Proust<\/a>, for one, rose sometime between 3pm and 6pm, immediately smoked opium powders to relieve his asthma, then rang for his coffee and croissant.”)<\/li>\n
  2. don’t give up the day job (<– not sure about this one<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  3. take lots of walks<\/li>\n
  4. stick to a schedule<\/li>\n
  5. practice strategic substance abuse<\/li>\n
  6. learn to work anywhere<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    burkeman tries to adopt these rituals and two insights emerge:<\/p>\n

    One is how ill-suited the nine-to-five routine is to most desk-based jobs involving mental focus; it turns out I get far more done when I start earlier, end a little later, and don’t even pretend to do brain work for several hours in the middle.<\/p>\n

    Another technique I couldn’t manage without comes from the writer and consultant Tony Schwartz: use a timer to work in 90-minute “sprints”, interspersed with significant breaks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Oliver Burkeman reviews Daily Rituals by Mason Currey, which looks at the daily routines of famous creative people (benjamin franklin, georgia o’keefe, proust, etc.). the common patterns among them: be a morning person (though in theory i am more into the proust model: “Marcel Proust, for one, rose sometime between 3pm and 6pm, immediately smoked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7231,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions\/7231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}