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Immanuel Kant and The One Rule for Life - Mark Manson

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A hermit who never left the town he was born in and died over 200 years ago gave us one of the best versions of morality to live by.

D epending on your perspective, Immanuel Kant was either the most boring person on the planet or a productivity hacker’s wet dream. For over 40 years, he woke up every morning at 5:00 AM and wrote for exactly three hours. He would then lecture at the same university for exactly four hours. He followed that up with lunch at the same restaurant each day. Then, in the afternoon, he would go on an extended walk through the same park, on the same route, leaving and returning home at the exact same time. Every day. Kant spent his entire life in Königsberg, Prussia. I mean that literally. He never le

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