How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
The Complete Original Edition

Author: Arnold Bennett

Narrator: Bruce Kramer

Unabridged: 1 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/04/2020


Synopsis

Learn to use your most precious commodity—time—to truly live.

Arnold Bennett’s classic book, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, has been changing the way people use and consider their time since it was first published in 1910. In the intervening century surprisingly little has changed—we still struggle to make use of our time and are often plagued by the persistent worry that we are not making the most of our lives. Bennett encourages listeners to stop merely following the rote patterns of their lives and leverage their free hours by viewing time as a commodity like money—each of us is allotted exactly 24 hours every day to spend as we see fit. What we make of our lives will ultimately be a result of what we make of that time.

Bennett’s prescription is simple, but revolutionary: consider the time outside your work day as an entirely separate day, sixteen hours (give or take) during which you are free to do anything you like to grow and improve yourself and your happiness. Building on that premise, he helps listeners begin to take control of their time—starting with just 90 minutes three times a week—and use it to truly live. Bennett’s writing is realistic and his advice transcends the years since it was first written.

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day is an honest and refreshing perspective on how we can seize control of our time and spend it in the wisest way possible.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Essentials

About Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett was a prolific English novelist and leading realist author during the early twentieth century. In addition to his fictional work, he also wrote selected nonfiction and criticism, including his insightful book How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ilse

Get your mind in hand . And see how the process cures half the evils of life – especially worry, that miserable, avoidable, shameful disease – worry! It occurred to me that How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day could be the first self-help book ever I managed to finish without yawning or ending up......more

Must reread it sometime later ! And best of all - make it my bedside table necessity ! Upd: I read it, enjoyed and promptly forgot. But somehow I managed to implement the best takeouts from this one. All without clearly remembering about the intent to do so! Q: You can turn over a new leaf every hour i......more

Goodreads review by Peter

Flowery and funny self-help from the turn of the (last) century, this little book was an uncanny, spot-on description of my daily routine and how I often think of it. It was slightly shocking to hear my modern quotidian hang-ups called out by a guy addressing "clerks" in a time of 36-cent round-trip......more

Goodreads review by Dan

This guy is quite a baller. "What I suggest is that at six o'clock you look facts in the face and admit that you are not tired (because you are not, you know)..." "'I hate all the arts!' you say. My dear sir, I respect you more and more." and a lot more badass quotes that I forgot to write down. But......more