i also think about how lincoln was famously up at all hours and had a wildly unpredictable schedule and how the last photos of him look like a man who would not have survived another term even if booth had never been born
it’s neither here nor there as far as a trait to be emulated, but i always think about how joffre was unfailingly militant about his dining and sleep schedule, even during the great retreat, which would (and should!) have spooked the shit out of any normal commander
