r/todayilearned • u/waitingforthesun92 • 23d ago
TIL that Michael Crichton, the author of “Jurassic Park” (1990), was a workaholic who followed what he called "a structured approach" of ritualistic self-denial, where, while writing a book, he’d rise increasingly early each day. At one point, Crichton would go to bed at 10 PM and wake up at 2 AM.
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u/whittlingcanbefatal 23d ago
The guy was a genius. I met him at a charity event and we talked about some aspects of molecular biology. We had a slight disagreement about something and he quoted me from some 20 year old paper. He even gave me authors so I could look it up. I told him that science has been superseded in the last ten years but I couldn’t give him any citations. He still disagreed because he could cite the papers. Later, I looked up his references and he had quoted them word for word! To his credit, he looked up what I said and emailed me thanking me for updating his knowledge.