Yeah, so you’re busy painting the Sistine Chapel, but you still have dishes to wash, diapers to change, e-mails to send, lawns to mow, groceries to buy…
Flaubert said it best: “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” [h/t Austin Kleon]
When we’re young, we all dream of having these amazing lives, where we fly all over the world, doing all these sorts of different things, going to all sorts of parties.
But if that glamorous existence ever does become reality, you may find it surprisingly disappointing, simply because keeping up with it does not let you live the quiet life you actually need to crank out a lot of meaningful work on a regular basis.
