The science of sleep and its glorious effects on creativity,
productivity, and sanity gets a lot of press these
days. That said, the sleep habits of some of your favorite writers, musicians,
and artists may surprise you a little.
The bedtimes and rising times of history’s greatest minds are
inventively illustrated in this New York infographic based on Mason Currey’s Daily
Rituals: How Artists Work.* The infographic seems to debunk the myth that
geniuses stay up through the wee hours working manically, and that you're more creative when you're tired--most of these 27
luminaries got a wholesome eight hours a night.
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| Image: Ben Franklin and Sleep mask via Shutterstock |
Unfortunately, the infographic doesn’t yield any sleep-related tricks
for unleashing your own latent genius, other than following the boring
eight-hour rule. You could try rolling like Balzac, a prodigious coffee-drinker
who slept from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. and then napped mid-morning, but he was likely
creative in spite of rather than because of his schedule. A few others skimped
on their sleep too, of course--hard-partying F. Scott Fitzgerald slept between
3:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., and Sigmund Freud averaged just six hours a night, but his love of stimulants far stronger than caffeine is
well-documented. So if you think pulling all-nighters is the key to finishing
up your Great American Novel, reconsider after taking a nap.
*An earlier version of this article failed to credit New York for
the visualization and misspelled the first name of Marina Abramović. We regret
the errors.
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