Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. As he writes: "I am simply bent on calling your attention to a fact which has perhaps wholly or partially escaped you -- namely, that you are the most fascinating bit of machinery that ever was."
As ever, his prose is honeyed, his thoughts inspired, and his advice as relevant today as when it was written.
As ever, his prose is honeyed, his thoughts inspired, and his advice as relevant today as when it was written.
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
01 Taking Oneself for Granted
12:31 - Chapter 2
02 Amateurs in the Art of Living
10:02 - Chapter 3
03 The Brain as a Gentleman-at-Large
10:32 - Chapter 4
04 The First Practical Step
10:03 - Chapter 5
05 Habit-forming by Concentration
10:40 - Chapter 6
06 Lord over the Noddle
10:05 - Chapter 7
07 What 'Living' Chiefly Is
11:01 - Chapter 8
08 The Daily Friction
10:54 - Chapter 9
09 'Fire!'
10:42 - Chapter 10
10 Mischievously Overworking It
10:14 - Chapter 11
11 An Interlude
10:59 - Chapter 12
12 An Interest in Life
09:18 - Chapter 13
13 Success and Failure
09:12 - Chapter 14
14 A Man and His Environment
10:33 - Chapter 15
15 L. S. D.
11:18 - Chapter 16
16 Reason! Reason!
10:25