Daily Rituals

Mason Currey was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Currey's writing has appeared in Slate, Metropolis, and Print. He lives in Brooklyn.

出版者:Knopf

作者:Mason Currey

页数:304

出版时间:2013-4-23

价格:USD 24.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780307273604

图书标签:时间管理传记日常生活美国个人管理写作英文原版时间

Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.”

Kafka is one of 161 inspired—and inspiring—minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks. Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up in the kitchen, the top of the refrigerator as his desk, dreamily fondling his “male configurations”. . . Jean-Paul Sartre chewed on Corydrane tablets (a mix of amphetamine and aspirin), ingesting ten times the recommended dose each day . . . Descartes liked to linger in bed, his mind wandering in sleep through woods, gardens, and enchanted palaces where he experienced “every pleasure imaginable.”

Here are: Anthony Trollope, who demanded of himself that each morning he write three thousand words (250 words every fifteen minutes for three hours) before going off to his job at the postal service, which he kept for thirty-three years during the writing of more than two dozen books . . . Karl Marx . . . Woody Allen . . . Agatha Christie . . . George Balanchine, who did most of his work while ironing . . . Leo Tolstoy . . . Charles Dickens . . . Pablo Picasso . . . George Gershwin, who, said his brother Ira, worked for twelve hours a day from late morning to midnight, composing at the piano in pajamas, bathrobe, and slippers . . .

Here also are the daily rituals of Charles Darwin, Andy Warhol, John Updike, Twyla Tharp, Benjamin Franklin, William Faulkner, Jane Austen, Anne Rice, and Igor Stravinsky (he was never able to compose unless he was sure no one could hear him and, when blocked, stood on his head to “clear the brain”).

Brilliantly compiled and edited, and filled with detail and anecdote, Daily Rituals is irresistible, addictive, magically inspiring.

读后感

总结来说，成就只来源于不断坚持的持续产出。至于生活习惯，并不重要。 有早晨5点起床的，有7点迎接朝阳的，有10点太阳晒屁股才起床的，有混过中午起来喝一杯的，甚至有不定时睡觉起床的。如果不知道这些人的成就，都可视为凡人。 越读越偏，每个作家我都算了一下寿命，然后看...  

总结来说，成就只来源于不断坚持的持续产出。至于生活习惯，并不重要。 有早晨5点起床的，有7点迎接朝阳的，有10点太阳晒屁股才起床的，有混过中午起来喝一杯的，甚至有不定时睡觉起床的。如果不知道这些人的成就，都可视为凡人。 越读越偏，每个作家我都算了一下寿命，然后看...  

总结来说，成就只来源于不断坚持的持续产出。至于生活习惯，并不重要。 有早晨5点起床的，有7点迎接朝阳的，有10点太阳晒屁股才起床的，有混过中午起来喝一杯的，甚至有不定时睡觉起床的。如果不知道这些人的成就，都可视为凡人。 越读越偏，每个作家我都算了一下寿命，然后看...  

用户评价

真正的大师杰作是完美的日常生活～缺憾是安·兰德太敷衍，而且竟然没有伍尔夫！不能原谅作者????

琐碎而有趣。

最近什么amazon，goodread包括大神sam harris都在推这本~

通勤读物。内容读多有鸡汤感，当练英语了。考虑发展一下自己的daily rituals，比如每天起床后举猫10下之类的。

"I always thought that inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work." // "The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.”