The workout, the walk, sleep, and time with family is key. What have you learned about managing that stress? You’re working live TV, which I can imagine is pretty stressful, and on top of that, you've worked at a time when I feel like the news is particularly stressful. The flipside is that the unrelenting, metronomic regularity can wear on you after a decade. I just had a week where I was supposed to be off but was doing the show because of Donald Trump’s indictment.) It also means on the weekends, I don't have, you know, “a federal court has issued a ruling and we have to file an emergency brief” or a doctor who has someone go into labor. If I have a day off, I have a guest host, and I'm not doing the show, which means I don't have to work that day. It’s a classic trope: A big client is having an emergency. Sometimes I'll be on vacation, and we'll be somewhere in a hotel and by the pool and you'll see a mom or a dad have to take a work call. One of the great things about my job is that my work product is extremely transparent and concrete, and exists only that day. So Saturday and Sunday, do you wake up and feel naked without the routine? Or do you feel blissfully liberated? People moving back and forth chasing a ball are in the sweet spot. And sometimes I’ll watch streaming TV-although not that much because I'm so brain dead at that point that the most basic plot is a little past my capabilities. I watch a lot of West Coast basketball on League Pass. I find the ambient noise of sports very soothing. And I've been trying not to have a glass of wine every day. I've stopped doing that because it makes getting to bed harder. But again, I wanted to have a maximal amount of energy. I used to drink a cup of coffee during the show, which is deranged. GQ: Leading up to that light going on for your show, what does your daily routine look like? Here, he talks about watching NBA basketball as a form of de-stressing, walking as a spiritual practice, and how he stays emotionally invested in a line of work that can be emotionally desensitizing. This means that as his workload has increased-and the pace and content of news have both gotten more chaotic-Hayes has had to get even more dialed in the routines that ground him. April marked a decade of “All In” being on air, and as Hayes’s profile has grown over those ten years, so too has his list of projects: he hosts the podcast Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast, he’s contributed pieces about political and social issues to The New Yorker and The New York Times, and is currently working on his third book, which is about the commodification of our attention. “That’s as hard as a routine gets, aside from a play on Broadway,” the 44-year old said recently over the phone. Eastern, journalist Chris Hayes finds himself in the exact same spot: in his New York studio to record MSNBC’s nightly news show All In with Chris Hayes. For “Routine Excellence,” GQ asks creative, successful people about the practices and habits that get them through their day.įive nights a week, at 8 p.m.
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