Comments on: The Odd (And Effective) Routines of Famous Minds like Beethoven, Maya Angelou, and Francis Bacon

What strikes me from the selected excerpts is their appetite for being social, be it with their partner, a gathering of people or at the pub. Often one would imagine obssessively creative people ...

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I tried Yerba Mate after I learned that you drink it. I really like its taste, and use it in combination with a nootropics regime for mental performance, as well as calorie burning. I did some re...

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I know this may not be important or worth the effort ti implement but I came to this page by clicking the link in the email message that clearly indicates the subscription. So why 'enter your ema...

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Yes, Francis Bacon has drunk a lot, but almost everybody of great artists used alcohol or drugs to make an art :)

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In reply to Skip Blankley. 100% Agree!!

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In reply to abhyudaya. Mia Angelou?

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Wow, Since I've started working from home completely this has pretty much been my schedule. Wake 7am, coffee shop to work until 1pm-ish, then training or rock climbing until 3pm, then evening cof...

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Would be nice if the book had covered some recent success stories as well -everyone it mentions lived 50 years back at the very least!

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I especially liked Maya Angelou's approach to what some might refer to as the "flow state". If she was not feeling it, she would hang it up and head home early. If she was in the zone, she would ...

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Well, to each his own! I have once read an almost identical piece of content before through an email newsletter. It tackled weird but persistent habits that many writers do on a routine to let th...

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