Inspiration and Perspiration (Rabbi Sacks on Tetzaveh, Covenant & Conversation)
The Office of Rabbi Sacks
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Most creative people have daily rituals. These form the soil in which the seeds of their invention grow. Beethoven rose each morning at dawn and made himself coffee. Anthony Trollop, who as his day job worked for the post office, paid a groom to wake him every day at 5 a.m. Emmanuel Kant, the most brilliant philosopher of modern times, was famous for his routine. As Heinrich Heiner put it, getting up drinking coffee, writing, giving lectures, eating, taking a walk, everything had its set time.
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