Genius mode. The daily routine of great people. Curry M.

How do creative people work? How do they manage to build their day so that everyday routine becomes part of the creative process? When there is not enough time for the plan, whether you should sacrifice everything - sleep, decent income, cleanliness in the house - or you can develop the ability to concentrate efforts, work less

Beethoven and Kafka, Georges Sand and Picasso, Woody Allen and Agatha Christie, Leo Tolstoy, Henry James, Charles Dickens, John Apdike. Writers, composers, artists, choreographers, playwrights, philosophers, caricaturists, comedians, poets, sculptors. Excerpts from letters and diaries, interviews and personal conversations - Curry collects evidence from from everywhere about how the great ones are doing. These brief sketches can entertain, captivate, and inspire; They help to penetrate the “deep, lively fusion of discipline and licentiousness”, which consists and which creative temperament is powered and fits. Fear, fatigue and doubts, how they ate, slept, talked, walked - in a word, about all those “cunning rituals” that helped them become great.