How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett·1908·132 pages
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“Genius is never rewarded by even an extra hour a day.”
Arnold Bennett · chosen by someone who read it first
Underline it in the book. In the You.Prjct app, a line from this volume meets you on today’s invitation.
A ruled margin beside the text, four lines at the foot of every page, and the Notes leave their last page open under the thing they ask you to do. A chapter opening and a Notes close, as printed.
Your evenings leak into a screen and the week is gone. Bennett's answer: you are already rich, paid the same hours again every midnight. Give ninety minutes, three evenings a week, to something that grows you.
Written in 1908 for a London clerk who felt his evenings leaking away, this book said first what every glowing screen now proves: the fight of a modern life is the fight for your own hours. Bennett’s claim is merciless and kind at once. You are already rich; the fortune is paid again at midnight.
It closes with two essays: the man, and the city of clerks he wrote it for.
- OneThe Daily Miracle19
- TwoThe Desire to Exceed One's Programme27
- ThreePrecautions Before Beginning35
- FourThe Cause of the Troubles43
- FiveTennis and the Immortal Soul51
- SixRemember Human Nature59
- SevenControlling the Mind65
- EightThe Reflective Mood73
- NineInterest in the Arts81
- TenNothing in Life is Humdrum89
- ElevenSerious Reading97
- TwelveDangers to Avoid105
The portrait is printed on the back cover. Turn the book over, above, to meet him.
The outside follows the inside.
You.Prjct is for the extra work: the lift nobody assigned, the hour with a book that nobody sees. The reading sits next to the training on purpose. A barbell does not lie about the body. A book like these does not lie about the rest of you, and the rest of you decides what the training is for.
Black covers, a metal emblem, one range across every spine. We made the outside beautiful because of what happens on the inside. A life works the same way: put the interior in order and the rest of it follows. If that is the work you are already doing, these were made for you.
Every one closes with the Notes, and a page left open under the thing they ask you to do. Read the rest with a pen.