大师们的5项日常活动：时间应该这样管理

While some behavioral scientists have found that having strong connections makes you more successful, some of the most influential creative people lived in relative isolation.
尽管有些行为科学家认为，广泛的社交关系有助于人们取得更大成功；但是，有些颇具影响的大师实际上生活得相对隔绝。

Take Simone de Beauvoir, whose 1949 "The Second Sex" gave a theoretical voice to feminism. A friend of Beauvoir's said her lifestyle included "no parties, no receptions, no bourgeois values… It was an uncluttered kind of life, a simplicity deliberately constructed so that she could do her work.”
就比如波伏娃吧，她在1949年问世的《第二性》为女权主义发出了理论呐喊。但波伏娃的一个朋友透露说，她的生活“没有聚会、没有访客、没有资产阶级享乐……是一种简单纯粹的生活，是一种刻意营造的简洁，这样她才能专心工作。”

Semi-isolation worked for painters, too. As Green reports, Picasso and his girlfriend Fernande Olivier designated their Sundays as "at-home" days, so they wouldn't have to deal with the "obligations of friendship."
画家也有存在半隔绝状态的。格林写道，毕加索和他的女朋友费尔南德·奥利弗把星期日称为“宅着的日子”，这样他们就不用应付“友谊之责任”了。

5. They stopped before they were running on empty.
他们懂得适可而止，而不是盲目前进。

Hemingway was rigorous about his productivity. He'd track the number of words he wrote per day on a chart, "so as not to kid myself.” But he was also careful not to exhaust his creative stores. In an interview with the Paris Review, Hemingway emphasized the importance of building a creative rhythm, saying you shouldn't finish your work for the day unless you know how you'll start tomorrow.
海明威对自己的写作产量非常严格。他把自己每天要写的字数记在一张表格上，“这样就不会糊弄自己。” 同时，他也非常注意不要过分榨取自己的灵感。在《巴黎评论》的一次采访中，海明威强调了形成创作节奏的重要性，他认为除非清楚第二天该如何开始，否则不可以结束一天的工作。

"The important thing is to have good water in the well," Hemingway said, "and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill."
“重要的是井里要有好泉水，”海明威说，“与其一下子就把水榨干然后干等，不如循序渐进每次汲取一定量的泉水。”