How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

Name: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Arnold Bennett
ISBN: 9781907556241

Author: Arnold Bennett

Narrator: Arnold Bennett

Unabridged: 1 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: M-Y Books Ltd.

Published: 01/14/2012

Categories: Nonfiction, Self-help, Motivational & Inspirational

Synopsis

With the advent of the modern corporate workplace in the twenty-first century, more and more people are toiling away behind desks, wearily clocking the standard forty-hour week. By 1910, writer Arnold Bennett had observed a worrying trend of exhausted wage-earners whose waking hours revolved around their jobs and who had little time to spend on the business of actually living. Self-improvement was Bennett’s prescription for a speedy escape from the woes of the rat race. In his popular work How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, he advised those starved for time to set manageable goals for themselves and to pursue fulfilling activities - in much the same way that modern self-help experts urge today’s busy people to seek enlightenment, relaxation, and satisfaction in a chaotic world. Take a break from your busy day and let Arnold Bennett’s still-fresh advice help you find the contentment and calm you seek.

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

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘

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