Luhmann had an extremely prolific career, publishing fifty-eight books and hundreds of articles ( -How to take smart notes) in the thirty years he was an academic. After he died, he published an additional five or six books when his research students completed his remaining unfinished manuscripts.
He was so productive because he only followed his interests (Luhmann was never stuck). Which, on the surface, seems like he was an undisciplined person who petulantly only did what he wanted to do.
But if that were that case, he would have never published anything. It's clear that he maintained an intense work ethic alongside his seemingly undisciplined focus on research. The two together are the key to success. He was able to make meaningful and lasting connections (Learning is meaningful connections) between random bits of knowledge (Antifragility) which he used to write deeply about a breadth of topics.
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