By Porter Ander­son | @Porter_Anderson

Writer Unboxed: “The Inflexible Routines”

[dropcap style=”flat” size=”5″]W[/dropcap]hen you hear talk about the “joyous chaos” in which creative types are supposed to revel, you’re hearing from people who aren’t creative.

As Rafael Nadal writes in RAFA (and proves on the court), the dis­ci­pline reflected in a few “inflex­i­ble rou­tines” can anchor ded­i­ca­tion and devo­tion. I’ve seen a lot of chaos. Lit­tle of it has been joyous.

In this essay at Writer Unboxed, we look at the comparative understandings of this in the work of Nadal and of author Robin LaFevers, in her post On Discipline, Dedication, and Devotion.

What Nadal shows us about discipline, dedication, and devotion, is that these three dimensions of focused endeavor don’t hold still in a neat progression for us. When you drop a set, it might just be the discipline of those “inflexible routines” that makes you rededicate yourself to turning the match around.

Read the full article at WriterUnboxed.com

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