7 Fancy Historical Ways to Achieve Amazing Productivity

Beethoven, Franklin, Angelou. Caffeine, nudity, hotel rooms. In this article, Drake Baer, ​​will tell you how great people achieved productivity .

If the genius is close to insanity, then the creation of masterpieces requires working as a madman, psycho or mappet.
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As Amanda Green says in her book “Dental Floss for Brains,” somewhat similar to “Daily Rituals: How Creators Work” by Mason Curry, some of the most creative historical figures used extremely unusual work patterns. These are, for example:

1) Franklin stripped naked.

If you have a lot of money, people would rather call you eccentric than crazy. The Godfather of productivity, Benjamin Franklin, serves as a typical example. As Grieg observes, the founding father enjoyed the air baths every morning, spending an hour completely naked reading or writing. An interesting way to demonstrate absolute openness, isn't it?

2) Beethoven lived on caffeine

New Yorker wrote that caffeine limits creativity — but Beethoven never heard of it. The composer put 60 grains in a cup of morning coffee, notes Green. Perhaps this was the cause of the subsequent splitting of his personality.

3) Christie worked everywhere

The queen of detectives, Agatha Christie, whose book "And No One Has Been" shook the Fast Company in high school, had a fabulous passion for changing places. According to Green, the superploditious author (80 novels, 19 plays, etc.) never had a desk. She wrote anywhere.

4) Angelou - hotel ascetic

Maia Angelou once said that she could write a poem about everything he saw from her window. Such sensitivity is likely to be the reason that it imprisons itself in the most boring of environments - indescribably impersonal rooms of modern hotels.

5) Wright worked in his mind

Although this is just like meaningless meetings, it is not considered work, some people prefer to think over their projects before embarking on them. Einstein was one of them. The brilliant architect Frank Lloyd Wright, too. He never took up the creation of sketches of anything, without having mentally developed a design to the end. Perhaps this was due to his delusions of grandeur.

6) Stephen King did it every single day.

Productivity requires discipline. Discipline creates a situation. Stephen King created an environment that was very productive . He wrote daily about 2000 words. Details of his method can be found by reading the book How to Write Books , which will make your keyboard glow.

7) Frenzen discovered the main thing

The novelist Jonathan Frenzen evokes a sea of ​​envy due to the fact that he wrote the greatest novels about the terrible life of the average American. “Amendments” and “Freedom” break hearts, open eyes and freeze blood.

One aspect of the existence of a creepy average American is inherited religiosity, seeping into work. Franzen got rid of the little things that could distract him , like this: while writing “Amendments,” the Illinois-born author typed on a computer using “earplugs that protect headphones from noise and blindfold,” writes Green.

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Translated by Vyacheslav Davidenko, founder of MBA Consult