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Published: July 21, 2016, 7 p.m.

There\u2019s a Flaubert quote I stumbled on once: \u201cBe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.\u201d I\u2019ve always been more of a science man than an artist of course (and I don\u2019t know that carbohydrate curves or sprint intervals could ever be creatively \u201cviolent\u201d anyway). Nonetheless, something about the underlying concept always stayed with me. It begs a fundamental, even pivotal question: where do you want the freedom to be bold and impulsive (or at least spontaneous) in your life, and where do you want the security of being fixed and (relatively speaking) unyielding?

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Leaman)