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How to live on 24 hours a day (Arnold Bennett)
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day is a short self-help book "about the daily organization of time"[1] by novelist Arnold Bennett. Written originally as a series of articles in the London Evening News in 1907, it was published in book form in 1908. Aimed initially at "the legions of clerks and typists and other meanly paid workers caught up in the explosion of British office jobs around the turn of the [twentieth] century", it was one of several "pocket philosophies" by Bennett that "offered a strong message of hope from somebody who so well understood their lives".[2] The book was especially successful in the US, where Henry Ford bought 500 copies to give to his friends and employees.[3] Bennett himself said that the book "has brought me more letters of appreciation than all my other books put together".[1]
Author Arnold Bennett
Language English
Subject Self-help
Genre Nonfiction
Publication date
1908
Publication place United Kingdom
Media type Print
Philosophy
In the book, Bennett addressed the growing number of white-collar workers that had accumulated since the advent of the Industrial Revolution. In his view, these workers put in eight hours a day, forty hours a week, at jobs they did not enjoy, and at worst, hated. They worked to make a living, but their daily existence consisted of waking up, getting ready for work, working as little as possible during the workday, going home, unwinding, going to sleep, and repeating the process the next day. In short, he did not believe they were really living.
Bennett addressed this problem by urging his readers to seize their extra time and make the most of it to improve themselves. Extra time could be found at the beginning of the day, by waking up early, and on the ride to work, on the way home from work, in the evening hours, and especially during the weekends. During this time, he prescribed improvement measures such as reading great literature, taking an interest in the arts, reflecting on life, and learning self-discipline.
Bennett wrote that time is the most precious of commodities and that many books have been written on how to live on a certain amount of money each day. He added that the old adage "time is money" understates the matter, as time can often produce money, but money cannot produce more time. Time is extremely limited, and Bennett urged others to make the best of the time remaining in their lives.
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Chapters
The book includes the following chapters:
The Daily Miracle
The Desire to Exceed One's Programme
Precautions Before Beginning
The Cause of the Trouble
Tennis and the Immortal Soul
Remember Human Nature
Controlling the Mind
The Reflective Mood
Interest in the Arts
Nothing in Life is Humdrum
Serious Reading
Dangers to Avoid
Quote
Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say "lives," I do not mean exists, nor "muddles through." Which of us is free from that uneasy feeling that the "great spending departments" of his daily life are not managed as they ought to be? [...] Which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: "I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
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Author Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931
Title How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Alternate Title How to live on twenty-four hours a day
Contents Preface -- The daily miracle -- The desire to exceed one's programme -- Precautions before beginning -- The cause of the trouble -- Tennis and the immortal soul -- Remember human nature -- Controlling the mind -- The reflective mood -- Interest in the arts -- Nothing in life is humdrum -- Serious reading -- Dangers to avoid.
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LoC Class BJ: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Ethics, Social usages, Etiquette, Religion
Subject Conduct of life
Subject Values
Subject Time management
Category Text
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Release Date Aug 1, 2000
Most Recently Updated Dec 31, 2020
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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Title: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Author: Arnold Bennett
Release date: August 1, 2000 [eBook #2274]
Most recently updated: December 31, 2020
Language: English
Produced by Tony Adam. HTML version by Al Haines.
PREFACE TO THIS EDITION
This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be,
should be read at the end of the book.
I have received a large amount of correspondence concerning this small
work, and many reviews of it--some of them nearly as long as the book
itself--have been printed. But scarcely any of the comment has been
adverse. Some people have objected to a frivolity of tone; but as the
tone is not, in my opinion, at all frivolous, this objection did not
impress me; and had no weightier reproach been put forward I might
almost have been persuaded that the volume was flawless! A more
serious stricture has, however, been offered--not in the press, but by
sundry obviously sincere correspondents--and I must deal with it. A
reference to page 43 will show that I anticipated and feared this
disapprobation. The sentence against which protests have been made is
as follows:--"In the majority of instances he [the typical man] does
not precisely feel a passion for his business; at best he does not
dislike it. He begins his business functions with some reluctance, as
late as he can, and he ends them with joy, as early as he can. And his
engines, while he is engaged in his business, are seldom at their full
'h.p.'"
I am assured, in accents of unmistakable sincerity, that there are many
business men--not merely those in high positions or with fine
prospects, but modest subordinates with no hope of ever being much
better off--who do enjoy their business functions, who do not shirk
them, who do not arrive at the office as late as possible and depart as
early as possible, who, in a word, put the whole of their force into
their day's work and are genuinely fatigued at the end thereof.
I am ready to believe it. I do believe it. I know it. I always knew
it. Both in London and in the provinces it has been my lot to spend
long years in subordinate situations of business; and the fact did not
escape me that a certain proportion of my peers showed what amounted to
an honest passion for their duties, and that while engaged in those
duties they were really _living_ to the fullest extent of which they
were capable. But I remain convinced that these fortunate and happy
individuals (happier perhaps than they guessed) did not and do not
constitute a majority, or anything like a majority. I remain convinced
that the majority of decent average conscientious men of business (men
with aspirations and ideals) do not as a rule go home of a night
genuinely tired. I remain convinced that they put not as much but as
little of themselves as they conscientiously can into the earning of a
livelihood, and that their vocation bores rather than interests them.
Nevertheless, I admit that the minority is of sufficient importance to
merit attention, and that I ought not to have ignored it so completely
as I did do. The whole difficulty of the hard-working minority was put
in a single colloquial sentence by one of my correspondents. He wrote:
"I am just as keen as anyone on doing something to 'exceed my
programme,' but allow me to tell you that when I get home at six thirty
p.m. I am not anything like so fresh as you seem to imagine."
Now I must point out that the case of the minority, who throw
themselves with passion and gusto into their daily business task, is
infinitely less deplorable than the case of the majority, who go
half-heartedly and feebly through their official day. The former are
less in need of advice "how to live." At any rate during their
official day of, say, eight hours they are really alive; their engines
are giving the full indicated "h.p." The other eight working hours of
their day may be badly organised, or even frittered away; but it is
less disastrous to waste eight hours a day than sixteen hours a day; it
is better to have lived a bit than never to have lived at all. The real
tragedy is the tragedy of the man who is braced to effort neither in
the office nor out of it, and to this man this book is primarily
addressed. "But," says the other and more fortunate man, "although my
ordinary programme is bigger than his, I want to exceed my programme
too! I am living a bit; I want to live more. But I really can't do
another day's work on the top of my official day."
The fact is, I, the author, ought to have foreseen that I should appeal
most strongly to those who already had an interest in existence. It is
always the man who has tasted life who demands more of it. And it is
always the man who never gets out of bed who is the most difficult to
rouse.
Well, you of the minority, let us assume that the intensity of your
daily money-getting will not allow you to carry out quite all the
suggestions in the following pages. Some of the suggestions may yet
stand. I admit that you may not be able to use the time spent on the
journey home at night; but the suggestion for the journey to the office
in the morning is as practicable for you as for anybody. And that
weekly interval of forty hours, from Saturday to Monday, is yours just
as much as the other man's, though a slight accumulation of fatigue may
prevent you from employing the whole of your "h.p." upon it. There
remains, then, the important portion of the three or more evenings a
week. You tell me flatly that you are too tired to do anything outside
your programme at night. In reply to which I tell you flatly that if
your ordinary day's work is thus exhausting, then the balance of your
life is wrong and must be adjusted. A man's powers ought not to be
monopolised by his ordinary day's work. What, then, is to be done?
The obvious thing to do is to circumvent your ardour for your ordinary
day's work by a ruse. Employ your engines in something beyond the
programme before, and not after, you employ them on the programme
itself. Briefly, get up earlier in the morning. You say you cannot.
You say it is impossible for you to go earlier to bed of a night--to do
so would upset the entire household. I do not think it is quite
impossible to go to bed earlier at night. I think that if you persist
in rising earlier, and the consequence is insufficiency of sleep, you
will soon find a way of going to bed earlier. But my impression is
that the consequences of rising earlier will not be an insufficiency of
sleep. My impression, growing stronger every year, is that sleep is
partly a matter of habit--and of slackness. I am convinced that most
people sleep as long as they do because they are at a loss for any
other diversion. How much sleep do you think is daily obtained by the
powerful healthy man who daily rattles up your street in charge of
Carter Patterson's van? I have consulted a doctor on this point. He
is a doctor who for twenty-four years has had a large general practice
in a large flourishing suburb of London, inhabited by exactly such
people as you and me. He is a curt man, and his answer was curt:
"Most people sleep themselves stupid."
He went on to give his opinion that nine men out of ten would have
better health and more fun out of life if they spent less time in bed.
Other doctors have confirmed this judgment, which, of course, does not
apply to growing youths.
Rise an hour, an hour and a half, or even two hours earlier; and--if
you must--retire earlier when you can. In the matter of exceeding
programmes, you will accomplish as much in one morning hour as in two
evening hours. "But," you say, "I couldn't begin without some food,
and servants." Surely, my dear sir, in an age when an excellent
spirit-lamp (including a saucepan) can be bought for less than a
shilling, you are not going to allow your highest welfare to depend
upon the precarious immediate co-operation of a fellow creature!
Instruct the fellow creature, whoever she may be, at night. Tell her
to put a tray in a suitable position over night. On that tray two
biscuits, a cup and saucer, a box of matches and a spirit-lamp; on the
lamp, the saucepan; on the saucepan, the lid--but turned the wrong way
up; on the reversed lid, the small teapot, containing a minute quantity
of tea leaves. You will then have to strike a match--that is all. In
three minutes the water boils, and you pour it into the teapot (which
is already warm). In three more minutes the tea is infused. You can
begin your day while drinking it. These details may seem trivial to
the foolish, but to the thoughtful they will not seem trivial. The
proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the
feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
A. B.
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How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931)
"Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'" -- Arnold Bennett knew a "rat race" when he saw one. Every day, his fellow white-collar Londoners followed the same old routine. And they routinely decried the sameness in their lives.-- So Bennett set out to explain how to inject new enthusiasm into living. In this delightful little work, he taught his fellow sufferers how to set time apart for improving their lives. Yes, he assured them, it could be done. Yes, if you want to feel connected with the world, instead of endlessly pacing the treadmill (or, "exceeding your programme", as he called it), you must do so.-- For time, as he gleefully notes, is the ultimate democracy. Each of us starts our day with 24 hours to spend. Even a saint gets not a minute more; even the most inveterate time-waster is docked not a second for his wastrel ways. And he can choose today to turn over a new leaf! -- Bennett believed that learning to discern cause and effect in the world would give his readers an endless source of enjoyment and satisfaction. Instead of only being able to discuss what they had heard, they could graduate to what they thought... and lift themselves completely from the deadening influence of a day at the office. (Summary by Mark F Smith)
Genre(s): Self-Help
Language: English
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02- The Desire to Exceed One's Programme
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03 - Precautions Before Beginning
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04 - The Cause of the Troubles
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05 - Tennis and the Immortal Soul
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06 - Remember Human Nature
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07 - Controlling the Mind
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08 - The Reflective Mood
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09 - Interest in the Arts
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10 - Nothing in Life is Humdrum
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11 - Serious Reading
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12 - Dangers to Avoid
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Title: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Author: Arnold Bennett
has been recommended by
How to Develop Self-confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking
by Carnegie, Dale
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Live_on_24_Hours_a_Day
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day is a short self-help book "about the daily organization of time"[1] by novelist Arnold Bennett. Written originally as a series of articles in the London Evening News in 1907, it was published in book form in 1908. Aimed initially at "the legions of clerks and typists and other meanly paid workers caught up in the explosion of British office jobs around the turn of the [twentieth] century", it was one of several "pocket philosophies" by Bennett that "offered a strong message of hope from somebody who so well understood their lives".[2] The book was especially successful in the US, where Henry Ford bought 500 copies to give to his friends and employees.[3] Bennett himself said that the book "has brought me more letters of appreciation than all my other books put together".[1]
Author Arnold Bennett
Language English
Subject Self-help
Genre Nonfiction
Publication date
1908
Publication place United Kingdom
Media type Print
Philosophy
In the book, Bennett addressed the growing number of white-collar workers that had accumulated since the advent of the Industrial Revolution. In his view, these workers put in eight hours a day, forty hours a week, at jobs they did not enjoy, and at worst, hated. They worked to make a living, but their daily existence consisted of waking up, getting ready for work, working as little as possible during the workday, going home, unwinding, going to sleep, and repeating the process the next day. In short, he did not believe they were really living.
Bennett addressed this problem by urging his readers to seize their extra time and make the most of it to improve themselves. Extra time could be found at the beginning of the day, by waking up early, and on the ride to work, on the way home from work, in the evening hours, and especially during the weekends. During this time, he prescribed improvement measures such as reading great literature, taking an interest in the arts, reflecting on life, and learning self-discipline.
Bennett wrote that time is the most precious of commodities and that many books have been written on how to live on a certain amount of money each day. He added that the old adage "time is money" understates the matter, as time can often produce money, but money cannot produce more time. Time is extremely limited, and Bennett urged others to make the best of the time remaining in their lives.
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Chapters
The book includes the following chapters:
The Daily Miracle
The Desire to Exceed One's Programme
Precautions Before Beginning
The Cause of the Trouble
Tennis and the Immortal Soul
Remember Human Nature
Controlling the Mind
The Reflective Mood
Interest in the Arts
Nothing in Life is Humdrum
Serious Reading
Dangers to Avoid
Quote
Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say "lives," I do not mean exists, nor "muddles through." Which of us is free from that uneasy feeling that the "great spending departments" of his daily life are not managed as they ought to be? [...] Which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: "I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
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How to live on 24 hours a day
by Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931
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you can download the (pdf file format) of the book here,
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https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2274
Author Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931
Title How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Alternate Title How to live on twenty-four hours a day
Contents Preface -- The daily miracle -- The desire to exceed one's programme -- Precautions before beginning -- The cause of the trouble -- Tennis and the immortal soul -- Remember human nature -- Controlling the mind -- The reflective mood -- Interest in the arts -- Nothing in life is humdrum -- Serious reading -- Dangers to avoid.
Credits Produced by Tony Adam. HTML version by Al Haines.
Language English
LoC Class BJ: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Ethics, Social usages, Etiquette, Religion
Subject Conduct of life
Subject Values
Subject Time management
Category Text
EBook-No. 2274
Release Date Aug 1, 2000
Most Recently Updated Dec 31, 2020
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
Downloads 1106 downloads in the last 30 days.
you can read the (HTML web page) of the book here,
The Project Gutenberg eBook of How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
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you can read the (plain TEXT format) of the book here,
https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2274/pg2274.txt
Title: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Author: Arnold Bennett
Release date: August 1, 2000 [eBook #2274]
Most recently updated: December 31, 2020
Language: English
Produced by Tony Adam. HTML version by Al Haines.
PREFACE TO THIS EDITION
This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be,
should be read at the end of the book.
I have received a large amount of correspondence concerning this small
work, and many reviews of it--some of them nearly as long as the book
itself--have been printed. But scarcely any of the comment has been
adverse. Some people have objected to a frivolity of tone; but as the
tone is not, in my opinion, at all frivolous, this objection did not
impress me; and had no weightier reproach been put forward I might
almost have been persuaded that the volume was flawless! A more
serious stricture has, however, been offered--not in the press, but by
sundry obviously sincere correspondents--and I must deal with it. A
reference to page 43 will show that I anticipated and feared this
disapprobation. The sentence against which protests have been made is
as follows:--"In the majority of instances he [the typical man] does
not precisely feel a passion for his business; at best he does not
dislike it. He begins his business functions with some reluctance, as
late as he can, and he ends them with joy, as early as he can. And his
engines, while he is engaged in his business, are seldom at their full
'h.p.'"
I am assured, in accents of unmistakable sincerity, that there are many
business men--not merely those in high positions or with fine
prospects, but modest subordinates with no hope of ever being much
better off--who do enjoy their business functions, who do not shirk
them, who do not arrive at the office as late as possible and depart as
early as possible, who, in a word, put the whole of their force into
their day's work and are genuinely fatigued at the end thereof.
I am ready to believe it. I do believe it. I know it. I always knew
it. Both in London and in the provinces it has been my lot to spend
long years in subordinate situations of business; and the fact did not
escape me that a certain proportion of my peers showed what amounted to
an honest passion for their duties, and that while engaged in those
duties they were really _living_ to the fullest extent of which they
were capable. But I remain convinced that these fortunate and happy
individuals (happier perhaps than they guessed) did not and do not
constitute a majority, or anything like a majority. I remain convinced
that the majority of decent average conscientious men of business (men
with aspirations and ideals) do not as a rule go home of a night
genuinely tired. I remain convinced that they put not as much but as
little of themselves as they conscientiously can into the earning of a
livelihood, and that their vocation bores rather than interests them.
Nevertheless, I admit that the minority is of sufficient importance to
merit attention, and that I ought not to have ignored it so completely
as I did do. The whole difficulty of the hard-working minority was put
in a single colloquial sentence by one of my correspondents. He wrote:
"I am just as keen as anyone on doing something to 'exceed my
programme,' but allow me to tell you that when I get home at six thirty
p.m. I am not anything like so fresh as you seem to imagine."
Now I must point out that the case of the minority, who throw
themselves with passion and gusto into their daily business task, is
infinitely less deplorable than the case of the majority, who go
half-heartedly and feebly through their official day. The former are
less in need of advice "how to live." At any rate during their
official day of, say, eight hours they are really alive; their engines
are giving the full indicated "h.p." The other eight working hours of
their day may be badly organised, or even frittered away; but it is
less disastrous to waste eight hours a day than sixteen hours a day; it
is better to have lived a bit than never to have lived at all. The real
tragedy is the tragedy of the man who is braced to effort neither in
the office nor out of it, and to this man this book is primarily
addressed. "But," says the other and more fortunate man, "although my
ordinary programme is bigger than his, I want to exceed my programme
too! I am living a bit; I want to live more. But I really can't do
another day's work on the top of my official day."
The fact is, I, the author, ought to have foreseen that I should appeal
most strongly to those who already had an interest in existence. It is
always the man who has tasted life who demands more of it. And it is
always the man who never gets out of bed who is the most difficult to
rouse.
Well, you of the minority, let us assume that the intensity of your
daily money-getting will not allow you to carry out quite all the
suggestions in the following pages. Some of the suggestions may yet
stand. I admit that you may not be able to use the time spent on the
journey home at night; but the suggestion for the journey to the office
in the morning is as practicable for you as for anybody. And that
weekly interval of forty hours, from Saturday to Monday, is yours just
as much as the other man's, though a slight accumulation of fatigue may
prevent you from employing the whole of your "h.p." upon it. There
remains, then, the important portion of the three or more evenings a
week. You tell me flatly that you are too tired to do anything outside
your programme at night. In reply to which I tell you flatly that if
your ordinary day's work is thus exhausting, then the balance of your
life is wrong and must be adjusted. A man's powers ought not to be
monopolised by his ordinary day's work. What, then, is to be done?
The obvious thing to do is to circumvent your ardour for your ordinary
day's work by a ruse. Employ your engines in something beyond the
programme before, and not after, you employ them on the programme
itself. Briefly, get up earlier in the morning. You say you cannot.
You say it is impossible for you to go earlier to bed of a night--to do
so would upset the entire household. I do not think it is quite
impossible to go to bed earlier at night. I think that if you persist
in rising earlier, and the consequence is insufficiency of sleep, you
will soon find a way of going to bed earlier. But my impression is
that the consequences of rising earlier will not be an insufficiency of
sleep. My impression, growing stronger every year, is that sleep is
partly a matter of habit--and of slackness. I am convinced that most
people sleep as long as they do because they are at a loss for any
other diversion. How much sleep do you think is daily obtained by the
powerful healthy man who daily rattles up your street in charge of
Carter Patterson's van? I have consulted a doctor on this point. He
is a doctor who for twenty-four years has had a large general practice
in a large flourishing suburb of London, inhabited by exactly such
people as you and me. He is a curt man, and his answer was curt:
"Most people sleep themselves stupid."
He went on to give his opinion that nine men out of ten would have
better health and more fun out of life if they spent less time in bed.
Other doctors have confirmed this judgment, which, of course, does not
apply to growing youths.
Rise an hour, an hour and a half, or even two hours earlier; and--if
you must--retire earlier when you can. In the matter of exceeding
programmes, you will accomplish as much in one morning hour as in two
evening hours. "But," you say, "I couldn't begin without some food,
and servants." Surely, my dear sir, in an age when an excellent
spirit-lamp (including a saucepan) can be bought for less than a
shilling, you are not going to allow your highest welfare to depend
upon the precarious immediate co-operation of a fellow creature!
Instruct the fellow creature, whoever she may be, at night. Tell her
to put a tray in a suitable position over night. On that tray two
biscuits, a cup and saucer, a box of matches and a spirit-lamp; on the
lamp, the saucepan; on the saucepan, the lid--but turned the wrong way
up; on the reversed lid, the small teapot, containing a minute quantity
of tea leaves. You will then have to strike a match--that is all. In
three minutes the water boils, and you pour it into the teapot (which
is already warm). In three more minutes the tea is infused. You can
begin your day while drinking it. These details may seem trivial to
the foolish, but to the thoughtful they will not seem trivial. The
proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the
feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
A. B.
for those of you who are too busy to read, but like to listen you can listen to the book here:
https://librivox.org/how-to-live-on-twenty-four-hours-a-day-by-arnold-bennett/
(( I have not test or check this URL link out, either, however, I believe URL should work if everything else that is needed to make the URL work is working as it should, if you know what I mean; and if you do not what it mean, then that's okay, too. ))
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How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931)
"Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'" -- Arnold Bennett knew a "rat race" when he saw one. Every day, his fellow white-collar Londoners followed the same old routine. And they routinely decried the sameness in their lives.-- So Bennett set out to explain how to inject new enthusiasm into living. In this delightful little work, he taught his fellow sufferers how to set time apart for improving their lives. Yes, he assured them, it could be done. Yes, if you want to feel connected with the world, instead of endlessly pacing the treadmill (or, "exceeding your programme", as he called it), you must do so.-- For time, as he gleefully notes, is the ultimate democracy. Each of us starts our day with 24 hours to spend. Even a saint gets not a minute more; even the most inveterate time-waster is docked not a second for his wastrel ways. And he can choose today to turn over a new leaf! -- Bennett believed that learning to discern cause and effect in the world would give his readers an endless source of enjoyment and satisfaction. Instead of only being able to discuss what they had heard, they could graduate to what they thought... and lift themselves completely from the deadening influence of a day at the office. (Summary by Mark F Smith)
Genre(s): Self-Help
Language: English
here is the URL, again:
https://librivox.org/how-to-live-on-twenty-four-hours-a-day-by-arnold-bennett/
on the behalf of everyone (mina-san), we would like give a special thanks to Mark F. Smith for reading how-to-live-on-twenty-four-hours-a-day-by-arnold-bennett, because some people are visually impaired, and or visually disable, ...
00 - Preface
https://www.archive.org/download/twenty-four_hours_a_day_librivox/live_on_24_hours_00_bennett.mp3
01 - The Daily Miracle
https://www.archive.org/download/twenty-four_hours_a_day_librivox/live_on_24_hours_01_bennett.mp3
02- The Desire to Exceed One's Programme
https://www.archive.org/download/twenty-four_hours_a_day_librivox/live_on_24_hours_02_bennett.mp3
03 - Precautions Before Beginning
https://www.archive.org/download/twenty-four_hours_a_day_librivox/live_on_24_hours_03_bennett.mp3
04 - The Cause of the Troubles
https://www.archive.org/download/twenty-four_hours_a_day_librivox/live_on_24_hours_04_bennett.mp3
05 - Tennis and the Immortal Soul
https://www.archive.org/download/twenty-four_hours_a_day_librivox/live_on_24_hours_05_bennett.mp3
06 - Remember Human Nature
https://www.archive.org/download/twenty-four_hours_a_day_librivox/live_on_24_hours_06_bennett.mp3
07 - Controlling the Mind
https://www.archive.org/download/twenty-four_hours_a_day_librivox/live_on_24_hours_07_bennett.mp3
08 - The Reflective Mood
https://www.archive.org/download/twenty-four_hours_a_day_librivox/live_on_24_hours_08_bennett.mp3
09 - Interest in the Arts
https://www.archive.org/download/twenty-four_hours_a_day_librivox/live_on_24_hours_09_bennett.mp3
10 - Nothing in Life is Humdrum
https://www.archive.org/download/twenty-four_hours_a_day_librivox/live_on_24_hours_10_bennett.mp3
11 - Serious Reading
https://www.archive.org/download/twenty-four_hours_a_day_librivox/live_on_24_hours_11_bennett.mp3
12 - Dangers to Avoid
https://www.archive.org/download/twenty-four_hours_a_day_librivox/live_on_24_hours_12_bennett.mp3
source:
this 75 page book
Title: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Author: Arnold Bennett
has been recommended by
How to Develop Self-confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking
by Carnegie, Dale
instead of reading the newspaper (what is a newspaper?) or anything else, the author recommend getting a print copy of this book, tear out the pages into a set of 20 (about), with 75 pages that's 25 pages, 3 set, put each set into your coat jacket pocket, and read and refer to this book in your ...; when you finished with one, rubber band that and move to the next set; the book would be (proof, prove) more useful in your coat pocket than on your book shelf.
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