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Balzac was also exceptionally productive, averaging 4 books per year, enabled by a grueling writing routine. As described by  Daily Rituals , Balzac wrote for 15-16 hours a day, punctuated only by occasional breaks, sleep, and endless coffee.

As for why parenting-as-performance generally feels more stressful and shitty, well, it’s pretty hollow: you can check all the boxes and still feel like something’s missing, so you just keeping adding more boxes, and comparing your parenting to others’, then adding more “boxes” to beat them. It’s a similar phenomenon, I think, to buying a house, a

Closer to home, architecture is the hardest design profession to study and get into and has incredibly high standards. Architects can debate style and aesthetics all night, but at the end of the day, their shit has to be up to code. Architects have to make sure that engineers and contractors carry our their intention  and  are ready