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Name: Daily Rituals
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Author: Mason Currey

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What’s in it for me? Access to the rituals that formed the world’s best artists.

What do you do to get going? Do you go on a morning run? Eat the same breakfast every day? Maybe you always sit at the same table in the same cafe to do your work? Or maybe you ignore the day altogether, preferring to burn the midnight oil?

We all have our little habits that help us work more productively. And it was no different for history’s greatest artists, musicians, writers and philosophers. They also had their little life hacks and eccentricities that helped make them geniuses.

These blinks unveil the weird and wonderful habits that drove creatives and thinkers such as Beethoven, Sartre and Marx.

In these blinks, you’ll discover

how many beans Beethoven put in his morning cup of coffee;
which famous writer preferred to work facing a cow; and
why Benjamin Franklin liked to take a daily walk in his birthday suit.

This is a Blinkist staff pick

“Just the morning routines alone would make these blinks worthwhile, but I especially love hearing about some of the eccentricities of my favorite artists – like Beethoven and his coffee beans.”

– Ben S, Audio Lead at Blinkist

Most artists do their creative work during a particular time.

We’re all familiar with the romantic image of the disheveled artist toiling through the night, typing or painting feverishly to finish their work. But this certainly isn’t how all creatives function.

Poet W.H. Auden, for instance, doesn’t fit the stereotype. He was particularly vigilant about his working hours, once declaring that “Only the Hitlers of the world work at night; no honest artist does.” Though not all artists take such a radical stance, many certainly prefer daytime working hours.

A slew of creatives give compelling reasons for working at dawn or in the early-morning hours. Take author Toni Morrison, for example, who likes to rise at around 5 a.m. and witness the dawn of each new day. For her, it’s important to wake before the light and observe the transition into day. She considers this a mystical moment that inspires her to write.

Some people get such a boost from this morning energy that one morning simply isn’t enough. Novelist Nicholson Baker, for example, reaps the benefit of two mornings in one day by waking up for a spell of writing at 4 a.m., then going back to sleep, and rising once again around 8:30 a.m. for his second morning.

But this penchant for early mornings is far from universal. There are many for whom nights are the optimal time for creative work.

For instance, author Ann Beattie is an absolute night owl. A great condoner of the idea that we are all attuned to different clocks, her preferred working hours are from 12 a.m to 3 a.m.

Gustave Flaubert is another example of someone who favored working at night. He had a routine that allowed him to fulfill his social and familial commitments during the day; this freed up the quiet hours of the night, when he found it easiest to write.

Some creators have more time than others because of their life circumstances.

Did you know that Richard Wright wrote the first draft of a 500-page novel in a mere five months? An impressive feat – but also one in large part made possible by the New York Writer’s Program, which provided him with a full-time salary during this period. Most artists, both past and present, only ever dream of being so fortunate.

Great minds are often crippled by a lack of time and money. For example, Wolfgang Mozart had to put up with an arduous schedule in order to make ends meet; most of his time was dedicated either to teaching or to socializing with the many patrons who helped finance his music. He only had time to work on his compositions at night, and he would often keep at it until 1:00 a.m., a mere five hours before the beginning of his next hectic day.

Drugs and stimulants allow artists to work longer hours – or just to relax.

Which words do you think pop up most frequently in the biographical writings of the world’s greatest minds? Words like “inspiration,” maybe, or “love”? Actually, one of the most recurrent words is “coffee.”

Thanks to its ability to kick the brain into action, coffee is widely and wildly popular, and creative minds in particular have such a penchant for java that they develop routines and ceremonies based on their daily consumption.

Finding inspiring surroundings is important for creators.

You probably think of artists as city dwellers working in the run-down studios of some bohemian neighborhood, taking breaks to meet in cliques at the local cafe. However, many artists and thinkers seek inspiration in seclusion and nature.

Take Carl Jung, for instance, who built himself a stone house near a remote village on the lake of Zurich. His amenities comprised a fireplace, some oil lamps and a nearby lake from which he fetched water. In this sanctuary, far from the frenzy of city life, he carved out the time to write and reflect.

There is no wrong or right way; great minds develop their own creative process.

Being creative can be a hard slog, especially if you get stuck and end up procrastinating or traipsing through the day without producing anything satisfying. But there is no cure-all remedy when it comes to creativity, and different working rhythms can produce equally effective results.

The composer Benjamin Britten, for instance, detested the idea of inspiration and believed in hard work alone. Some of his colleagues even complained that his life was his work, as his creativity seemed to be so all encompassing.

Connecting with the body is a popular way to free the mind.

Sitting around while trying to create can drain you both mentally and physically. There are ways to pep yourself up, though, from traditional exercise and fresh air to some less orthodox practices, as you’ll see below.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, walking and other sports are popular among creative people. Kierkegaard, one such enthusiast, spent most of his afternoons walking through Copenhagen; in fact, it was while walking that he had his best ideas. When inspiration struck, he would hurry home and, standing at his desk, write down his idea, his hat still on his head.

Day-to-day relationships play an essential part in many artists’ lives.

Some world-renowned thinkers and artists collaborated with other eminent creators; Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were one such duo. But as well as collaborating for work, many creators emphasize the importance of friends and partners, who often help with the more practical and mundane parts of life.

For example, Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein’s partner, managed all practical aspects of the household, who would wake up at 6 a.m. so that all would be prepared for Ms. Stein when she awoke four hours later.

Women and men often have different roles in a creative household.

Whether true or not, it’s long been thought that women are inherently adept multitaskers. It’s certainly true that, historically, female artists have had to devise ways of navigating spousal and societal strictures if they hoped to meet with success.

Before women’s liberation movements in the twentieth century, women who were able to dedicate their life to creative work were few and far between.

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Daily Rituals (2013) is an entertaining and illuminating collection of the daily routines of great minds and artists. Including the work habits of people such as Jane Austen, Ludwig van Beethoven and Pablo Picasso, it offers insights into the best ways to maximize efficiency and prevent writer’s block, as well as tips on how to get by in the creative world.

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For me, light is the signal in the transaction. Its not being in the light, its being there before it arrives. It enables me, in some sense. - Toni Morrison

—Mason Currey

Wer Daily Rituals lesen sollte

Those interested in quirky facts about inspiring people
Artists, academics and freelancers
Anyone who wants to enrich their life with new rituals

Über den Autor

Mason Currey is a magazine editor and freelance writer. His work has been published in The New York Times and Slate.

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