How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett · 1908
5.0 · 6 ratings
About the book
The first and still the best time-management book: your salary buys your day, but the twenty-four hours themselves arrive fresh and unearned every morning. Bennett's programme asks for ninety minutes an evening and a straight face about tennis and the immortal soul.
Try the short course
Part 1 · Twenty-four new hours, every morning. The first six slides, free.
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Bennett opens with a piece of gossip you have probably said yourself. A man with a good job and a regular income, not extravagant, and yet always in difficulties. Excellent flat, half empty. New suit, old hat. He asks you to dinner and it's cut glass with bad mutton.
Everyone can see his problem at a glance: he fritters his income away. Give me half his salary, says the critic, and I'd show him how it's done.
We are all confident chancellors of the exchequer when it's someone else's money. Bennett lets you enjoy that superior feeling for exactly one paragraph. Then he turns it around and points it at the one income you have never really learned to manage.
Inside the course
12 parts- The daily miracle: twenty-four unearned hoursFree above
- The desire to exceed one's programme
- Precautions before beginning
- The cause of the trouble: the day's real shape
Questions
Is How to Live on 24 Hours a Day free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, German, French, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
12 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
Where do I get the app?
Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day is waiting in the app’s library.
