How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett, provides insightful ideas on a healthy way to live on an average day.The book was written in the early 20th century and was aimed towards the growing number of workers following the Industrial Revolution, however the ideas introduced are still relevant today.
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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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day - Arnold Bennett
HOW TO LIVE ON 24 HOURS A DAY
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Arnold Bennett
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
I: THE DAILY MIRACLE
II: THE DESIRE TO EXCEED ONE’S PROGRAMME
III: PRECAUTIONS BEFORE BEGINNING
IV: THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLES
V: TENNIS AND THE IMMORTAL SOUL
VI: REMEMBER HUMAN NATURE
VII: CONTROLLING THE MIND
VIII: THE REFLECTIVE MOOD
IX: INTEREST IN THE ARTS
X: NOTHING IN LIFE IS HUMDRUM
XI: SERIOUS READING
XII: DANGERS TO AVOID
HOW TO LIVE ON 24 HOURS A DAY
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I: THE DAILY MIRACLE
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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!