The Genius Mode: Daily Routine of Great People

How do creative people work? How do they manage to structure their day so that the everyday routine becomes part of the creative process? When there is not enough time for what they have in mind, should they sacrifice everything — sleep, a decent income, cleanliness at home — or can they develop the ability to concentrate their efforts, work less but better
Beethoven and Kafka, George Sand and Picasso, Woody Allen and Agatha Christie, Leo Tolstoy, Henry James, Charles Dickens, John Updike. Writers, composers, artists, choreographers, playwrights, philosophers, cartoonists, comedians, poets, sculptors... Excerpts from letters and diaries, interviews and personal conversations — Curry collects testimonies from everywhere about how the great create. These brief sketches can entertain, captivate, and inspire; they help to penetrate the «deep, living fusion of discipline and indulgence» that composes and nourishes the creative temperament.
The reader will learn how celebrities combined everyday life and creativity, what schedules they followed, how they fought their fears, fatigue, and doubts, how they ate, slept, communicated, walked — in a word, about all those «clever rituals» that helped them become great.