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Breakfast

On Early Mornings and Raw Eggs

Eggs! (Via Cobalt_123.)

Tad Friend writes in recent New Yorker of 46-year-old Leo Nordine, a wunderkind broker of foreclosed real estate in Southern California. It's a moving tale of the desperate condition of SoCal real estate, but what jumps out at me is the description of Nordine's breakfast. To set the scene, Nordine is mid-property visit, and, nicely, about to spare a young mother from immediate eviction:

Nordine nudged aside a yapping poodle with his sneaker and listened attentively; customarily barefoot, he puts on shoes only to visit his properties and to skateboard. He also wore board shorts and a white T-shirt, having got up at 4:30 A.M. to hit his favorite surf break -- he is one of California's best paddle surfers -- then drink five raw eggs and eat raw slmon jerky, then fight at his local martial-arts studio. The whites of his green eyes gleamed, in that rackety kitchen, with almost accusatory health.

Who drinks five raw eggs for breakfast? The thought actually triggers in me some boyhood, Rocky-inspired determination, but is that good for you? Nordine sounds like the real estate broker equivalent of Teddy Roosevelt (wild boar and black coffee before boxing?) In any event, it all makes me want to know more about morning routines of super achievers. The Dalai Llama, I will remind you again, starts his morning at 3:30 A.M. I battle with the snooze dangerously close to 8 A.M.

Thus, a new series is born: The Seven Breakfast Habits of Highly Successful People. Please post your submissions (tagged: breakfast), or comment below....