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Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule

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Re: Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule

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Post by pan69 »

mwdev wrote: post #10
pan69 wrote: post #8

Hmm. Looks very similar to my own typical work day. Except I get up at 6 instead of five which means I have one hour less a day to spend per day. However, I would no be able to function properly after a while without that one extra hour of sleep.

You should give it a try. You might surprise yourself. I recently started getting up at 4 just to see what would happen. I've got a ton more time and occasionally need to take a nap around 5-7pm, but other wise have been fine just getting 4 hrs a night.

Hmm. I doubt that would work for me. Less than 8 hours sleep and I'll be s total wreck in no time. I also read somewhere (don't have references) that 7-8 hours sleep is optimal. Naps give me a headache. Can't sleep on a bus/train/airplane either.

Re: Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule

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Post by wyclif »

btucker wrote: post #7

Franklin's autobiography (where this comes from) is a fantastic quick read with lots of thought provoking ideas relavant to the HN crowd. Definitely recommended!

Franklin's autobiography is my top pick in the "books for entrepreneurs" category, and is also simply a must-read Americana book.

Re: Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule

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Post by wyclif »

M1573RMU74710N wrote: post #18
baddox wrote: post #13

No exercise, unless it was somehow included in "Work." Of course, the three hours before work in the morning would leave time for half an hour of exercise.

Ben Franklin was actually fairly athletic. One of his many occupations was being a printer, which required carrying around heavy equipment. He was known to carry 2 trays where many Printers only managed 1. He was also a very avid swimmer (unusual as at the time, many people couldn't swim at all) and promoted physical fitness and moderation. (I come from Philadelphia: a town where BF is a revered local hero, to the po…

I'm from Philly, too. Early in the book, where he talks about his impetus for all the early inventions, there's a section discussing how he rigged a kite to pull him downstream while swimming.

Re: Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule

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Post by wyclif »

jonknee wrote: post #14
baddox wrote: post #13

No exercise, unless it was somehow included in "Work." Of course, the three hours before work in the morning would leave time for half an hour of exercise.

I don't think exercise was a huge concern in his day. Scheduling times to exercise is a modern invention.

Also, many of the things that qualify today for activity level we would deem "exercise" was reached by everyday chores, such as chopping wood, feeding livestock, walking, &c.

Re: Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule

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Post by natfriedman »

wyclif wrote: post #22
btucker wrote: post #7

Franklin's autobiography (where this comes from) is a fantastic quick read with lots of thought provoking ideas relavant to the HN crowd. Definitely recommended!

Franklin's autobiography is my top pick in the "books for entrepreneurs" category, and is also simply a must-read Americana book.

Amazing that a must-read American classic was written in a week:

... expecting the enjoyment of a week's uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write ... for you.

Re: Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule

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Post by zyfo »

Related and highly recommended are:

* Daily routines - How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days. http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_routines/

* How we work - We're interested in the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done. http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2004/12/how_we_work.html

Re: Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule

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Post by AlecSchueler »

zyfo wrote: post #28

Related and highly recommended are: * Daily routines - How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days. http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_routines/ * How we work - We're interested in the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done. http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2004/12/how_we_work.html

Thanks a lot for these. I was looking for things just like this the other day - something like usesthis.com, but for other fields. And the fact that dailyroutines starts of with Simone de Beauvoir, one of my favourite authors, gives me great confidence in the site.
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