What he does instead is highlight the fundamental ideas behind time management – the internal battles, questions, and liberating concepts that help us all to reclaim our status as agents of our own destinies. Bennett doesn’t try to make you better at managing the precious 24 hours you’ve been given. How To Live doesn’t offer tips and techniques for time management, productivity or successful multi-tasking. And our excuse to ourselves is that there are only twenty-four hours in the day.” We have not even taken a cab to Ludgate Circus and inquired from Cook’s the price of a conducted tour. He may perish ingloriously on the coast of the Red Sea… but he will not be tormented in the same way as the man who, desiring to reach Mecca, never leaves Brixton. Written in 1908, it’s a searingly perceptive and no-nonsense account of how we commonly use time as an excuse for failing to live life to the full – and it’s just as accurate today as it was at the turn of the 20 th Century: We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.” 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. "Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say "lives," I do not mean exists, nor "muddles through. ‘How To Live On 24 Hours A Day’ is not the book you think it is.įar from a practical guide to squeezing out the maximum output from each day, it’s a philosophical, deeply humorous call to action: to take responsibility for how you spend your days, stop lamenting the lack of time available to you, and make of each moment what you will: Arnold Bennett’s ‘How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day’ is a practical, funny and inspiring exploration of how to do it effectively – a brief, brilliant read for career-changers and the happy-at-work alike. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul. and lift themselves completely from the deadening influence of a day at the office.You have to live on twenty-four hours of daily time. Instead of only being able to discuss what they had heard, they could graduate to what they thought. 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. Even a saint gets not a minute more even the most inveterate time-waster is docked not a second for his wastrel ways. Each of us starts our day with 24 hours to spend. 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. In this delightful little work, he taught his fellow sufferers how to set time apart for improving their lives. And they routinely decried the sameness in their lives.- So Bennett set out to explain how to inject new enthusiasm into living. Every day, his fellow white-collar Londoners followed the same old routine. "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. Download cover art Download CD case insert How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day
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