College students can try out these strategy used by some of account ’s peachy mind , conglomerate by Mason Currey in his bookDaily Rituals , to train for finals hebdomad .
1.Behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner ready a timer when he worked and plotted his daily productivity on a graph .
2.Writing and rewrite euphony was critical to composer Morton Feldman . " While you ’re copying it , you ’re thinking about it , and it ’s giving you other approximation , " he explain in a 1986 lecture . But Feldman did n’t take credit for this advice — he pose it from fellow composer John Gage .
3.The studio apartment is n’t for everyone . Artist Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec arrange up his easel in brothels and sketched at cabarets .
4.An insurance lawyer by day , Wallace Stevens compose his poem on long walks on his lunch recess and to and from employment . When he found the perfect demarcation , he ’d blockade and scribble it on an gasbag he keep in his sac .
5.To avoid distractions , British dramatist Somerset Maugham ’s desk always faced a white wall .
6.It does n’t get more consistent than film director David Lynch . He wipe out lunch at Bob ’s Big Boy every day for seven year , always order a chocolate shake and five to seven cups of java .
7.Inventor Nikola Tesla had more lightbulb second in the darkness . He always work from noon to midnight with the blind shut .
8.Never underestimate the power of a heat - up call . Immanuel Kant hire a retired soldier to awaken him at 5 a.m. each morning .
9.To make a placebo effect of productiveness , novelist Nicholson Baker establishes a new modus operandi for every book , even if it just stand for writing in a sealed pair of shoe .
10.William Faulkner call for downright solitude to publish . The door to his home library did n’t have a curl , so he closed it and bump off the knob when it was time to work .
11.Writing was a squad effort for Gertrude Stein and her collaborator Alice B. Toklas . Toklas would drive Stein around France ’s Ain countryside in search of an inspiring cow or rock . When they found it , Stein would settle in the spot with her notebook . When she grew world-weary of the scene , they ’d get back in the car and drive on .
