Dan Ingalls Wonders how Genius Finds Time to Do Its Work

Often, reading about famous people, the side of it that I'm interested in is, how do they make their life work? All the things that weren't their passion, and how did they deal with that and with their family, and with their finances, and balancing that Or did they just hole up and say, "To hell with everything else," and let it just come crumbling down until they had their work done?

How does genius deal with all the distraction of life, or does it simply ignore the outside world and let it come crashing down.