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The book I am currently reading, is a book called Daily Rituals: How Artists Work \"\"by Mason Currey, an intriguing look at the daily routines of some 200 creators – writers, composers, painters, scientists, sculptors etc. This book came highly recommended via two sources: BrainPickings and the Tim Ferriss book club.

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I am skimming currently on my first pass, skimming through the book, and immensely enjoying it. As I do so, here are some observations, in no particular order, which jumped out at me:

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    Most of these people, these artists featured in the book seem to be addicted to substances – alcohol / tobacco / coffee / drugs (usually amphetamines) – and seem to depend on these for their creativity

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    Most of them have other people (wives / sisters / parents /servants) to take care of them (cook / look after children if they have families/ do laundry etc..)

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    Most of them are men

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    Of the people who are women, most of them are single or don’t have kids

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    For most of them, their creative pursuit is what they did full-time.

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a. Is this a sign of the times? Is it crazy that in our present everybody is expected to ‘hold down’ a ‘real job’? In the 1800 and 1900s doesn’t seem like this was expected. I’m not sure – something to be researched.

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    Almost all of them took long walks at different times of day, sometimes multiple times.

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    Most of them seemed to entertain quite a bit – either at home or go out to pubs / theatre

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a. This was quite surprising to me.

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b. A few, of course went the other extreme way and became hermits

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  1. Seems like most of them slept very less / had issues sleeping / issues with insomnia
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a. Was this a side-affect of substance ingestion?

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As I re-read this book and savor it in detail, I’m sure many more thoughts will come up.

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One thing I am bummed about is that there seems to be no examples for this category – women, with a full-time job in a non-creative area, kids, family and still trying to pursue creative fields. I wonder if in today’s would, there are such women movers and shakers? And I wonder how their daily routines look like?

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Readers, can you point me to any such women?

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Book Source: Public Library

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