How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett Full Length Audiobook

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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day is a book written by Arnold Bennett first published in 1908. In the book Bennett addressed the large and growing number of white collar workers that had accumulated since the advent of the Industrial Revolution. In his view, these workers put in eight hours a day 40 hours a week at jobs they did not enjoy and at worst hated. They worked to make a living but their daily existence consisted of waking up getting ready for work working as little as possible during the work day going home unwinding going to sleep and repeating the process the next day. In short he did not believe they were really living.
Bennett addressed this problem by urging these salarymen to seize their extra time, and make the most of it to improve themselves. Extra time could be found at the beginning of the day, by waking up early, and on the ride to work on the way home from work in the evening hours, and especially during the weekends. During this time he prescribed improvement measures such as reading great literature taking an interest in the arts reflecting on life and learning self-discipline. This is a self help book as well as a popular literary classic.

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