Did you know Ludwig van Beethoven
brewed his coffee with exactly sixty beans?
Counted them out, one by one—every morning.
A small obsession, but that’s how a symphony begins.

In Daily Rituals, a book about the routines
of creative minds, you keep running into stories like this.

Small habits, strange discipline, quiet obsession.

It’s one of the few books I’ve read more than once.
My favorite, because it shows that even brilliant minds
wrestled with time, discipline, and coffee.