Genius Mode: The daily routine of great people

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"The routine that has turned into a routine, a person follows an autopilot, without conscious effort. And at the same time, the routine develops as a result of a choice or a number of elections. In skillful hands, the regime of the day is a definitely calibrated mechanism that allows us to best use our limited resources: first of all, the time that we are most lacking, as well as willpower, self -discipline, and optimism. The ordered regime is like a rut along which the mental forces of a genius move at a good pace, it protects him from the tyranny of changeable moods. "
Mason Curry

What is the book "Genius"s mode: the daily routine of great people"
How do creative people work? How do they manage to build their day so that everyday routine becomes part of the creative process? When there is not enough time for the plan, whether to sacrifice everyone - sleep, decent income, cleanliness in the house - or can the ability to concentrate efforts, work less and better?

Beethoven and Kafka, Georges Sand and Picasso, Woody Allen and Agatha Christie, Leo Tolstoy, Henry James, Charles Dickens, John Appadike. Writers, composers, artists, choreographers, playwrights, philosophers, caricaturists, comedians, poets, sculptors ... Excerpts from letters and diaries, interviews and personal conversations - Curry collects certificates of how the Great ones create. These brief sketches can entertain, captivate, and inspire, they help to penetrate the "deep, lively fusion of discipline and licentiousness", which consists and which creative temperament is powered. The reader learns how celebrities combined life and work, what schedule followed, how they fought with their fears, fatigue and doubts, how they ate, slept, talked, walked, in a word, about all those "cunning rituals" that helped them become great.

Why the book "Genius mode" is worthy of reading
After reading this book, you will understand how to include a "genius regime" and create masterpieces with an effort of will and everyday labor, without waiting for mythical muses,
You will find out what tricks are used by famous people to concentrate, collect the will into a fist, sit down for work, keep faith in themselves - and achieve those outstanding results that everyone will talk about.
It is not the first time that I have been writing a review of the book, but this book is the first, which I read without breaking away. What is her secret?
It is very simple. The story of the time management of each of the famous people is the microstart of this hero. Each genius schedule illustrates it from different and often simply from ordinary household sides. What time he woke up that he ate for breakfast, whether he had consumed alcohol or whether he walked before bedtime. All these people had their own individual nuances. For example, Hemingway wrote his wonderful books standing. And never sharpened his famous "20 pencils". But the Toulouse-Lotrek tried his "healthy way of life" to bring himself to the grave by the age of 40, but he made a mistake and left us at 36. But my beloved artist Miro was engaged in boxing and loved to jump through the rope, and Kant, despite the fact that He lived next to the sea in his native Koenigsberg, has never been on it in his entire life. Yes, he never once went beyond his city.
In general, the book describes the eccentricities of these very unusual people. But what was important to me? This book once again confirmed my life observation that the stereotype that all talented and creative people are unorganized and undisciplined - complete nonsense. Yes, of course, among the characters there are those who drink all night and wake up at 11 and have no clear schedule and understandable schedule. But if you read the book, you will see that this is not always the case and Pablo Picasso, Juan Miro, Thomas Mann, Haruki Murakami very clearly planned their day, went to bed early and got up early. And most importantly, they worked a lot and created a schedule. After all, for an ordinary person, creativity, for an artist (in the broad sense of the word) is a daily and not always easy job. The genius of these people is that they managed to find their favorite business, which they liked to do. Most of these very different people worked a lot and with great zeal. All of them will be united by the fact that work for them was not just a means of making money or pastime, but a real passion.
Of course, there is no single recipe for organizing the day. The main thing is that your vocation must be given completely. Indeed, the genius and not the genius of a person are judged by the results of his work. ”
Egor Altman,
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hidalgo Advertising Syndicate

The daily routine is a myth, self -illusion, a formal foundation of the metaphysical work of intelligence, and the mark of privileges in general. Mason Curry collected thousands of facts about the Great Schedule in order to give us hints and hopes that a repetition of a genius will help to achieve something comparable to the achievements of the best representatives of mankind. ”
Vasily Gatov,
The head of the RIA Novosti media laboratory

Who is the author
Mason Curry was born in Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in Ashville and works as an editor in Print, is also printed in Slate and Metropolis. Lives in Brooklyn