Why Carving Out 5 Hours Every Day For Difficult Work Can Lead To Greatness

If you want to do remarkable stuff, stop wasting your time on email. Great artists, writers, and inventors spend almost a quarter of their days immersed in deep work. Here's how to dive in and create something amazing.

By now you may have encountered Mason Curry's Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, a book that puts together the routines of 161 staggeringly creative people. It's an amazing collection for the way it reveals the quirks of genius, like Beethoven's fondness for caffeine, Maya Angelou's motel-based isolation, or Franklin's need to get naked. But among those eccentricites lies a central point: the greats didn't just work, they did deep work.

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