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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (version 2)

Public domain audiobook

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (version 2)

by Arnold Bennett

English· 01:36:23· 13 chapters
Are you really 'living', or just existing? Do you want to improve yourself or just continue to muddle through? Do you use the time given you each day, or just throw most of it away? These questions Bennett asks each of us and for those who want to really live and learn, offers very valuable advice.



Time is the most precious of commodities, states Bennett in this book. Many books have been written on how to live on a certain amount of money each day. And he added that the old adage "time is money" understates the matter, as time can often produce money, but money cannot produce more time. Time is extremely limited, and Bennett urged others to make the best of the time remaining in their lives. Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say "lives," I do not mean exists, nor "muddles through." Which of us is free from that uneasy feeling that the "great spending departments" of his daily life are not managed as they ought to be? [...] Which of us is not saying to himself -- 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. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is. - Summary from the author's preface and the reader.

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    PREFACE

    11:17
  2. Chapter 2

    THE DAILY MIRACLE

    07:30
  3. Chapter 3

    THE DESIRE TO EXCEED ONE'S PROGRAMME

    07:04
  4. Chapter 4

    PRECAUTIONS BEFORE BEGINNING

    07:17
  5. Chapter 5

    THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE

    07:10
  6. Chapter 6

    TENNIS AND THE IMMORTAL SOUL

    07:41
  7. Chapter 7

    REMEMBER HUMAN NATURE

    06:27
  8. Chapter 8

    CONTROLLING THE MIND

    06:46
  9. Chapter 9

    THE REFLECTIVE MOOD

    07:14
  10. Chapter 10

    INTEREST IN THE ARTS

    06:49
  11. Chapter 11

    NOTHING IN LIFE IS HUMDRUM

    06:44
  12. Chapter 12

    SERIOUS READING

    07:15
  13. Chapter 13

    DANGERS TO AVOID

    07:09