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From the outside, most famous routines look impossible: early alarms, long hours, whole days with nobody else in them. Take those parts away and the same nine patterns keep showing up in the days of Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, Benjamin Franklin, Jeff Bezos, Mark Twain and others. This video walks through each one and shows you how to use it in an ordinary day, even with a job or kids.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Why famous routines look impossible
0:30 - Pattern 1: Work in small pieces (Jane Austen)
2:26 - Pattern 2: Split the day in two (Simone de Beauvoir)
4:07 - Pattern 3: Keep your own work apart (Le Corbusier)
5:40 - Pattern 4: Think early, decide fresh (Jeff Bezos)
7:06 - Pattern 5: Decide the one thing first (Ben Franklin)
9:13 - Pattern 6: Protect one block (Toni Morrison)
12:12 - Pattern 7: Give your evenings a limit (Franz Kafka)
13:39 - Pattern 8: End the day on purpose (Mark Twain)
15:22 - Pattern 9: Say tomorrow out loud (Kurt Vonnegut)
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📚 BOOKS TO EXPLORE
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
The source for many of the routines in this video, with the working days of more than 150 writers, artists and thinkers.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307273601?tag=ideastothrive-20
Daily Rituals: Women at Work by Mason Currey
The companion volume, on how women writers and artists found time to work around everything else.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524732958?tag=ideastothrive-20
On Writing by Stephen King
The book from Pattern 3, where King says the one thing a work space needs is a door you're willing to shut.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439156816?tag=ideastothrive-20
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Pattern 5 in his own words, including the hour-by-hour schedule and his morning question.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486290735?tag=ideastothrive-20
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
Pattern 9's source: the 1965 letter where Vonnegut describes his day to his wife.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385343760?tag=ideastothrive-20
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Go deeper into Pattern 6: how to protect one block of focused time in a busy day.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1455586692?tag=ideastothrive-20
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