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Arnold Bennett
Everyone receives the same wealth of time each morning, twenty-four hours that cannot be saved or borrowed, and most of it is wasted. Arnold Bennett, writing…
Everyone receives the same wealth of time each morning, twenty-four hours that cannot be saved or borrowed, and most of it is wasted. Arnold Bennett, writing for office workers in London, suggests a modest plan: treat the hours outside work as a day of their own, use the morning train to train the mind, give ninety minutes on three evenings a week to serious reading or study, and begin small, so as not to give up. It is brisk, funny and practical, and among the first books of its kind.
Bennett, a successful novelist, published the little book in 1908, and its advice on attention and habit sounds surprisingly modern. Mark F. Smith reads it in about an hour and a half.
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