INFOGRAPHICS: The daily routine of great people

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-13 00:26

This infographic illustrates how the best minds of mankind organized their day.

For all people, the number of hours in a day is the same.

However, if you look at the achievements of the best representatives of humanity - great scientists, writers, creators, it seems that this is not entirely true. During their lives, they do much more than others. An excellent education, several foreign languages, travel, a huge creative heritage, which descendants have not ceased to disassemble for tens and even hundreds of years - how do they manage to do all this?

Perhaps the answer comes from the recently published Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, which explores the daily lives of some of the greatest people of the past. And we would like to present you with an infographic from this publication, which clearly presents the basic information on the daily routine of Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Mozart, Victor Hugo, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin and others.

Of course, people's habits change throughout life, so the infographics provide data only for a certain period (indicated in the upper right corner), as a rule, corresponding to the peak of creativity and productivity. If in the testimonies of contemporaries or biographers there are references to any unusual habit, then this also found a reflection. For example, Beethoven drank a cup of coffee every morning, carefully counting exactly 60 beans.

Think your morning is too stressful? Then look at Hugo, who woke up from a cannon shot from a nearby fort, and then doused with ice water from a barrel. Or Balzac, who loved coffee so much that he drank up to 50 cups a day (we don't recommend that you use this as an example).

However, see for yourself, it's really interesting.