The output of historic geniuses is just insane. The sheer amount of work and discovery and creation they did seems too much for one lifetime. I just don’t understand how they managed all they did.
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Well, they had women to do a lot of the piddly stuff for them. They weren’t cleaning up after themselves or cooking for themselves or worrying about their laundry and shit like that, so there’s a few extra hours a day.
Folks like Michelangelo and Beethoven worked – Michelangelo did his masterpieces ***because*** he got paid for it. He was patronized by a rich man to paint or sculpt, and that rich man paid for all Michelangelo’s expenses while Michelangelo was working for him. That’s how he had time to do the Sistine Chapel – the pope paid him to work exclusively on the Sistine Chapel. Same as the pope paid any other worker who did work in the Vatican. Michelangelo got paid more than the labourer who just fixes plastered walls, but they were both paid for their work.
And Beethoven’s job was writing and performing music. That’s how he had time; he made time so he could make money. Just like songwriters today. He could afford it because it was the profession he chose so he could afford things…same way I can afford to play with Photoshop; it’s my job, I have to find time.
Others, like Newton, were landed gentry and didn’t have to work because they owned a bunch of land and bunch of people living there paid rents. So rents funded his lifestyle, and *his* lifestyle consisted of watching apples fall and writing about it instead of gambling like his peers. He had plenty of time to philosophize.
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