How to Live on 24 Hours a Day E-Book

Arnold Bennett

• Herausgeber: Alicia Editions
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

“ I am living a bit; I want to live more.” 
“ You have to live on twenty-four hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul.”—Arnold Bennett 

Arnold Bennett was a prolific writer. His books appealed to a wide public and sold in large numbers. This small book (How to Live on 24 Hours a Day) is a series of lessons in psychic influence, thought-force, time management and will-power. It’s a practical, funny and inspiring guide to psychology. Bennett writes about how to live the present moment in its total richness and shares some tips on how to improve your spirituality, your mindfulness and your well-being that you can apply to your everyday life.
While not a professional psychologist, Mr. Bennett has given utterance to some of the most valuable and practical psychological truths of the last years, his contributions to this branch of human thought is sure to be recognized and appreciated by spiritual seekers. 

LARGE PRINT EDITION.

Contents: 
PREFACE
I. THE DAILY MIRACLE 
II. THE DESIRE TO EXCEED ONE'S PROGRAMME 
III. PRECAUTIONS BEFORE BEGINNING
IV. THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLES
V. TENNIS AND THE IMMORTAL SOUL 
VI. REMEMBER HUMAN NATURE
VII. CONTROLLING THE MIND
VIII. THE REFLECTIVE MOOD
IX. INTEREST IN THE ARTS
X. NOTHING IN LIFE IS HUMDRUM
XI. SERIOUS READING
XII. DANGERS TO AVOID 

Excerpt: “The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it. You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. A highly singular commodity, showered upon you in a manner as singular as the commodity itself!
For remark! No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
Talk about an ideal democracy! In the realm of time there is no aristocracy of wealth, and no aristocracy of intellect. Genius is never rewarded by even an extra hour a day. And there is no punishment. Waste your infinitely precious commodity as much as you will, and the supply will never be withheld from you.”

Leseprobe

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

Arnold Bennett

Contents

PREFACE

I. THE DAILY MIRACLE

II. THE DESIRE TO EXCEED ONE'S PROGRAMME

III. PRECAUTIONS BEFORE BEGINNING

IV. THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLES

V. TENNIS AND THE IMMORTAL SOUL

VI. REMEMBER HUMAN NATURE

VII. CONTROLLING THE MIND

VIII. THE REFLECTIVE MOOD

IX. INTEREST IN THE ARTS

X. NOTHING IN LIFE IS HUMDRUM

XI. SERIOUS READING

XII. DANGERS TO AVOID

“I am living a bit; I want to live more.”

“You have to live on twenty-four hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul.”

PREFACE

This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be, should be read at the end of the book.

I have received a large amount of correspondence concerning this small work, and many reviews of it—some of them nearly as long as the book itself—have been printed. But scarcely any of the comment has been adverse. Some people have objected to a frivolity of tone; but as the tone is not, in my opinion, at all frivolous, this objection did not impress me; and had no weightier reproach been put forward I might almost have been persuaded that the volume was flawless! A more serious stricture has, however, been offered—not in the press, but by sundry obviously sincere correspondents—and I must deal with it. A reference to Chapte IV) will show that I anticipated and feared this disapprobation. The sentence against which protests have been made is as follows:—"In the majority of instances he [the typical man] does not precisely feel a passion for his business; at best he does not dislike it. He begins his business functions with some reluctance, as late as he can, and he ends them with joy, as early as he can. And his engines, while he is engaged in his business, are seldom at their full 'h.p.'"

I am assured, in accents of unmistakable sincerity, that there are many business men—not merely those in high positions or with fine prospects, but modest subordinates with no hope of ever being much better off—who do enjoy their business functions, who do not shirk them, who do not arrive at the office as late as possible and depart as early as possible, who, in a word, put the whole of their force into their day's work and are genuinely fatigued at the end thereof.

I am ready to believe it. I do believe it. I know it. I always knew it. Both in London and in the provinces it has been my lot to spend long years in subordinate situations of business; and the fact did not escape me that a certain proportion of my peers showed what amounted to an honest passion for their duties, and that while engaged in those duties they were really living to the fullest extent of which they were capable. But I remain convinced that these fortunate and happy individuals (happier perhaps than they guessed) did not and do not constitute a majority, or anything like a majority. I remain convinced that the majority of decent average conscientious men of business (men with aspirations and ideals) do not as a rule go home of a night genuinely tired. I remain convinced that they put not as much but as little of themselves as they conscientiously can into the earning of a livelihood, and that their vocation bores rather than interests them.