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    How To Live on 24 Hours a Day
    How To Live on 24 Hours a Day
    How To Live on 24 Hours a Day
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    How To Live on 24 Hours a Day

    By Arnold Bennett

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    You have to live on twenty-four hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul. This timeless classic is one of the first self-help books ever written and was a best-seller in both England and America. It remains as useful today as when it was written, and offers fresh and practical advice on how to make the most of the daily miracle of life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOzymandias Press
    Release dateJan 19, 2018
    ISBN9781531283865
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    Arnold Bennett

    Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was an English novelist renowned as a prolific writer throughout his entire career. The most financially successful author of his day, he lent his talents to numerous short stories, plays, newspaper articles, novels, and a daily journal totaling more than one million words.

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    • 2/5
      A somewhat sententious analysis of how time seems simply to evaporate in modern life (written about 100 years ago). I found this short book (well, scarcely more than a long essay) was a little disappointing after having read some of Bennett's fiction set in the "Five Towns", though I did acknowledge that his argument was well-constructed and lucidly expressed. Still, i think i will stick to his fiction for the foreseeable future.
    • 3/5
      Short and, determinedly, sweet. Bennett's advice is quite straightforward: determine something you like to do, plan out a program of how to do that thing that you like to do, and then do that thing you like to do. Bennett likes to read and to meditate on Marcus Aurelius. He is gracious enough to consider that someone else may "have a like for the natural history of street-cries". That's OK, it's all one. The hallmarks of Bennett's style are consistent with his program for spending his and your time: charm, conviviality and adherence to a clear plan.
    • 2/5
      really, a serious attempt to provide tips for getting more out of your 24 hours; very 1908 intensity
    • 5/5
      This book shows some signs of age in its racist and sexist (gendered) language, but if we can accept the less-developed aspects of the times and focus on what is good, this book (or more accurately, books) will give the reader an immediate benefit if one is only willing to give Arnold Bennett's methods a try. This self-help book predates Dale Carnegie by a few years. If one were to sum-up Bennett hastily, I would say he was England's Dale Carnegie. Bennett received criticism from the likes of Virginia Woolf for his novels, but after one reading and implementing two of his ideas, I am hooked.
    • 2/5
      Well written skepticism about how to live 24 hours a day by the magnificent Arnold Bennett. Good writing is the cornerstone of all good literature.
    • 4/5
      Refreshing way of looking at the 'normal life' (the rat race), packed with memorable quotes, and a delightful audiobook-companion while planting a fig tree.
    • 4/5
      Not nearly as enjoyable as his fiction, is right. He veers close to sounding like the prig he derides in the last chapter. Still, worth a quick read, comparing self to the standard he is setting.

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    How To Live on 24 Hours a Day - Arnold Bennett

    HOW TO LIVE ON 24 HOURS A DAY

    Arnold Bennett

    OZYMANDIAS PRESS

    Thank you for reading. If you enjoy this book, please leave a review.

    All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

    Copyright © 2016 by Arnold Bennett

    Published by Ozymandias Press

    Interior design by Pronoun

    Distribution by Pronoun

    ISBN: 9781531283865

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    THE DAILY MIRACLE

    THE DESIRE TO EXCEED ONE’S PROGRAMME

    PRECAUTIONS BEFORE BEGINNING

    THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLES

    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

    THE DAILY MIRACLE

    ~

    YES, HE’S ONE OF THOSE men that don’t know how to manage. Good situation. Regular income. Quite enough for luxuries as well as needs. Not really extravagant. And yet the fellow’s always in difficulties. Somehow he gets nothing out of his money. Excellent flat—half empty! Always looks as if he’d had the brokers in. New suit—old hat! Magnificent necktie—baggy trousers! Asks you to dinner: cut glass—bad mutton, or Turkish coffee—cracked cup! He can’t understand it. Explanation simply is that he fritters his income away. Wish I had the half of it! I’d show him—

    So we have most of us criticised, at one time or another, in our superior way.

    We are nearly all chancellors of the exchequer: it is the pride of the moment. Newspapers are full of articles explaining how to live on such-and-such a sum, and these articles provoke a correspondence whose violence proves the interest they excite. Recently, in a daily organ, a battle raged round the question whether a woman can exist nicely in the country on L85 a year. I have seen an essay, How to live on eight shillings a week. But I have never seen an essay, How to live on twenty-four hours a day. Yet it has been said that time is money. That proverb understates the case. Time is a great deal more than money. If you have time you can obtain money—usually. But though you have the wealth of a cloak-room attendant at the Carlton Hotel, you cannot buy yourself a minute more time than I have, or the cat by the fire has.

    Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time. It is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible; without it, nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it. You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. A highly singular commodity, showered upon you in a manner as singular as the commodity itself!

    For remark! No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

    Talk about an ideal democracy! In the realm of time there is no aristocracy of wealth, and no aristocracy of intellect. Genius is never rewarded by even

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