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Mason Currey

Disciplines:
writing
productivity
research
creativity

Summary

American writer — author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work — who catalogued the daily routines of hundreds of artists, writers, and scientists in a compulsively readable collection.

Core Contribution

Creates the genre of creative routine documentation — Daily Rituals' compilation of how Beethoven, Proust, Darwin, and hundreds of others structured their working days is both practically useful (patterns emerge) and humanizing (great creators are revealed as creatures of habit).

Notable Works & Achievements

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

Daily Rituals: Women at Work

Historical Influences

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Stimulants and habits of genius

Intellectual Lineage

SlateDaily Rituals blog

Contemporaries & Peers

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Cal Newport

Minds Influenced

Creative productivity writing

Intellectual Posterity

Daily Rituals Creative routine research

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