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I tried creating my own work ritual for a month. It's worked well enough that I feel comfortable recommending it to others. Writeup here:

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Create Your Own Rituals

You know how creative people always seem to have some set of illogical rituals around their work? Well, I gave it a shot for a month. Here's how that went.

Cedric Chin

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I think my favourite famous-person ritual is Yasuhiro Yamashita's "cleans room before major Judo tournament" habit. Kosei Inoue does this also, and I think it comes from a samurai-era ritual (should the samurai die in combat, he would not be disgraced by a messy room).

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I love it! "What would they say if they found you dead with dirty pants?" == "He died dishonourably because his landlord found his room in a state of disarray."