This carefully crafted ebook: «How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (A Classic Guide to Self-Improvement)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The book, written by Arnold Bennett in 1910, is part of a larger work entitled How to Live. In this volume, he offers practical advice on how one might live (as opposed to just existing) within the confines of 24 hours a day. The book has 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 Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English journalist, novelist, and writer. After working as a rent collector and solicitor's clerk, Bennett won a writing contest which convinced him to become a journalist. He later turned to the writing of novels, including his most famous Clayhanger and Anna of the five towns.
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Arnold Bennett. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (A Classic Guide to Self-Improvement)
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
PREFACE TO THIS EDITION
Table of Contents
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
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Arnold Bennett
(A Classic Guide to Self-Improvement)
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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:
