Editing Buckminster Fuller (section)

== Lifestyle ==

Following his global prominence from the 1960s onward, Fuller became a frequent flier, often crossing time zones to lecture. In the 1960s and 1970s, he wore three watches simultaneously; one for the time zone of his office at Southern Illinois University, one for the time zone of the location he would next visit, and one for the time zone he was currently in.<ref name="Kenner-Guided-Tour"/>{{rp|290}}<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Kolbert |first=Elizabeth |url=https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/09/080609fa_fact_kolbert?currentPage=all |title=Annals of Innovation: Dymaxion Man: Reporting & Essays |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=April 18, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last = Fuller |first = Buckminster |title = Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth |publisher = Southern Illinois University Press |location = Carbondale |year = 1969 |isbn = 978-0-8093-2461-3|title-link = Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth }}</ref> In the 1970s, Fuller was only in 'homely' locations (his [[R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home|personal home in Carbondale, Illinois]]; his holiday retreat in [[Bear Island, Maine]]; and his daughter's home in [[Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles|Pacific Palisades]], California) roughly 65 nights per year—the other 300 nights were spent in hotel beds in the locations he visited on his lecturing and consulting circuits.<ref name="Kenner-Guided-Tour"/>{{rp|290}}

In the 1920s, Fuller experimented with [[polyphasic sleep]], which he called ''Dymaxion sleep''. Inspired by the sleep habits of animals such as dogs and cats,<ref name="Sieden-Universe">{{cite book | last1 = Sieden | first1 = Lloyd Steven | title = Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and Work | location = New York | publisher = [[Perseus Books Group]] | date = 2000 | isbn = 978-0-7382-0379-9 | title-link = Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and Work }}</ref>{{rp|133}} Fuller worked until he was tired, and then slept short naps. This generally resulted in Fuller sleeping 30-minute naps every 6 hours.<ref name="Kenner-Guided-Tour">{{cite book | last1 = Kenner | first1 = Hugh | title = Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller | location = New York | publisher = [[William Morrow & Company]] | date = 1973 | isbn = 978-0-688-00141-4 | title-link = Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller }}</ref>{{rp|160}} This allowed him "twenty-two thinking hours a day", which aided his work productivity.<ref name="Kenner-Guided-Tour"/>{{rp|160}} Fuller reportedly kept this Dymaxion sleep habit for two years, before quitting the routine because it conflicted with his business associates' sleep habits.<ref name="Time-1943-Dymaxion Sleep">{{cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,774680,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070105004033/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,774680,00.html | archive-date=January 5, 2007 | magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | title=Science: Dymaxion Sleep | date=October 11, 1943 | access-date=April 27, 2010}}</ref> Despite no longer personally partaking in the habit, in 1943 Fuller suggested Dymaxion sleep as a strategy that the United States could adopt to win World War II.<ref name="Time-1943-Dymaxion Sleep"/>

Despite only practicing true polyphasic sleep for a period during the 1920s, Fuller was known for his [[Endurance|stamina]] throughout his life. He was described as "tireless"<ref name="Life-1971-Farrell">{{Citation | last = Farrell | first = Barry | title = The View from the Year 2000 | newspaper = [[Life (magazine)|Life]] | pages = 46–58 | date = February 26, 1971 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kVMEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22fuller+is+a+man+of+exceedingly+gentle+manners%22&pg=PA46 | access-date = February 1, 2015}}</ref>{{rp|53}} by [[Barry Farrell]] in [[Life (magazine)|''Life'']] magazine, who noted that Fuller stayed up all night replying to mail during Farrell's 1970 trip to Bear Island.<ref name="Life-1971-Farrell"/>{{rp|55}} In his seventies, Fuller generally slept for 5–8 hours per night.<ref name="Kenner-Guided-Tour"/>{{rp|160}}

Fuller documented his life copiously from 1915 to 1983, approximately {{convert|270|ft|m}} of papers in a collection called the [[Dymaxion Chronofile]]. He also kept copies of all incoming and outgoing correspondence. The enormous R. Buckminster Fuller Collection is currently housed at [[Stanford University]].<ref>{{cite web |title=R. Buckminster Fuller Collection |url=https://exhibits.stanford.edu/bucky/about/about-the-collection |website=Stanford Libraries |date=April 6, 2017 |access-date=May 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112232732/https://exhibits.stanford.edu/bucky/about/about-the-collection |archive-date=January 12, 2020}}</ref>

{{blockquote|If somebody kept a very accurate record of a human being, going through the era from the [[Gay 90s]], from a very different kind of world through the turn of the century—as far into the twentieth century as you might live. I decided to make myself a good case history of such a human being and it meant that I could not be judge of what was valid to put in or not. I must put everything in, so I started a very rigorous record.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2003/january22/bucky-122.html |title=Buckminster Fuller conversations |publisher=News-service.stanford.edu |date=2003-01-22 |access-date=2014-04-18 |archive-date=February 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224012838/http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2003/january22/bucky-122.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-sul.stanford.edu//depts/spc/fuller/about.html |title=Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources |publisher=Sul.stanford.edu |date=June 22, 2005 |access-date=October 28, 2012}}</ref>}}