Speaker 1
If the writing isn't going well then I'll do reading, something related to it. If say book writing isn't going well I'll do a short article for a newspaper, I'll do a travel essay, I'll do a different format of writing. So I'm not able to focus on something for my book. I'll do some different version of writing. But every day unless I'm travelling then every day is spent writing. If I'm travelling I don't take my laptop with me. That is the other rule, I don't take my work with me. So then I can cut off also and every now and then get a break from writing. Because there's also such a thing as overwork and sort of saturating yourself that way.
Speaker 2
No it's great, you have a very clear ritual, you're committed to it. I think at some level we're all creatures of habits. But often not very good habits. I've made it a whole episode on the habit, you know, on the power of habits. Just doing something day after day for the whole year and multi-year, that's how things add up. But I think boring is good. Boring
Speaker 1
is good. I think boring is good. So one
Speaker 2
of the things I was talking about, some of the younger folks who watch this podcast and getting input on from your perspective, what's interesting from history. Some of the people question this question about why history is important. You know, stuff happened long time ago. It's not relevant anymore, world has moved on and so on. Why should we care about history? So as somebody who looks at history so closely, what is your articulation to yourself? Why history matters to you and perhaps why you think it matters to your society at large? Well, we're
Speaker 1
sitting in Bangalore, right? The shape of the city, the condition of its roads, the way the city is expanded, everything depends on how people planned the city or didn't plan the city a few years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 2
it's probably more the latter in this area. Yeah, for
