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James Franco is very impressive as well. From his Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franco#Personal_life :

Franco has been described as having "an unusually high metabolism for productivity...a superhuman ability to focus". Dissatisfied with his career's direction, Franco reenrolled at UCLA in the fall of 2006 as an English major with a creative writing concentration. Having received permission to take as many as 62 course credits per quarter compared to the normal limit of 19 while continuing to act, he received his undergraduate degree in June 2008 with a GPA over 3.5.

He moved to New York to simultaneously attend graduate school at Columbia University's MFA writing program, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for filmmaking,and Brooklyn College for fiction writing, while occasionally commuting to North Carolina's Warren Wilson College for poetry.[1] He received his MFA from Columbia in 2010. Franco is a Ph.D. student in English at Yale University and will also attend the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Franco is obviously extremely productive and very bright, but I can't help but focus on the fact that he has a full+ time personal assistant. She's up 18 hours a day with him handing the "details" of his life, so he's free to focus on whatever he wants to focus on.

Sometimes I wonder what kind of difference that would make in my life, particularly when I was in grad school.

And then I tell myself to shut up and get back to work.

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So... why not make it happen? Perhaps not all of it can be done, but Tim Ferriss talks about having an outsourced personal assistant.

If you are the type who could work all those extra hours, try outsourcing as many activities as possible. Start with housekeeping services, as an example, and perhaps a personal cook.