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Sorry if this is a repost, I tried to find if a similar topic had been done before but I did not find anything.
Careful with that thought. If someone creates their own path, following in their footsteps after the fact will be an entirely different journey than the one they took.
That said, I'm curious as well. With the crowd that HN attracts, personal anecdotes can get pretty interesting.
6:00 am: Rise from bed.
6:15 - 6:30: Dumbbell exercise and wall-scaling.
7:15 - 8:15: Study electricity, etc.
8:30 - 4:30: Work.
4:30 - 5:00: Baseball and sports.
5:00 - 6:00: Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it.
7:00 - 9:00: Study needed inventions.> Without a doubt, one way to mimic the successes of these people is to do what they do. Careful with that thought. If someone creates their own path, following in their footsteps after the fact will be an entirely different journey than the one they took. That said, I'm curious as well. With the crowd that HN attracts, personal anecdotes can get pretty interesting.
> Without a doubt, one way to mimic the successes of these people is to do what they do. Careful with that thought. If someone creates their own path, following in their footsteps after the fact will be an entirely different journey than the one they took. That said, I'm curious as well. With the crowd that HN attracts, personal anecdotes can get pretty interesting.
Sure but that is dependent on how low-level your definition of "mimic" is. I did not mean that I would do the very same thing. This might not be the most instructive example, but for example if someone said "I work hard all day long", you can certainly get successful as well by doing that. I guess I should have said "get inspiration" instead of "mimic".
6:30AM Wake up, shower, eat breakfast, make coffee
7:30AM Catch the bus to work
5:00PM Finish work
5:07PM Catch bus home
6:00PM Get home, make more coffee, change clothes, eat dinner
6:15PM-10:00 Program or socialize. So far this has been a 50/50 split.
10:30PM Sleep
On weeekends I try to get up early and hit a coffee shop from 9:00-3:00. I get somewhere between 15-20 hours of programming in per week (outside of my job).
8:30~9:00 wake up, stumble into shower
9:15 turn on computer, check email, do non-work
10:00 work begins
13:00 lunchtime!
15:30 shouldn't have brought a book! work resumes
17:30 ~ 18:30 creative impulse dies, work ceases for day
+ 1 hour go to gym
+ 2 hours eat dinner
+ 2.5 hours evening plans
22:00 ~ 2:00 AM read/game/movie/etc, check email, maybe write some goals down for later, go to sleep
9:30: wake up
10:30: get to work (now my home office), check email
10:30-noon: procrastinate
noon-1:15: lunch then 45 minute walk
1:15-5:00: procrastinate
5-7pm: 2 hours of amazing productivity
7-8:30: Cook & eat dinner
8:30-midnight: Take rest of night off or perhaps have another couple hours of productivity.
It's not as bad as it sounds cause usually the "procrastination" is me experimenting with new code or programming languages (or reading HN), just not what I'm "supposed" to be doing.
shower, exfoliate, moisturise, floss, brush teeth, mouth wash, hair product, get dressed by 7.45
drive to work (its important to listen to music at this time), arrive at 8.00
breakfast (fruit + croissants + green tea) ~ 9.00
work, lunch for ~45 mins at 12
finish work at 19.00
home by 19.15, snack at 21.30, work/read/music/video games till 1.30, exercise & stretch, sleep by 01.30.
repeat.
I've recently given up caffine and most sugars, and try to sleep only 6 hours a night and have been a factor of ten more productive. Also, only checking twitter on iPhone, heh.