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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day - by Arnold Bennett | Derek Sivers

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Delightful quick droll funny old book from 1908 about how to make the best use of your time. I like his written voice. I like his points on poetry, novels, curiosity, empathy, martyrs, reading the news, and of course making the most of every minute you have. You cannot waste time in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose. The idea of devoting thirty or forty consecutive minutes of wonderful solitude reading of newspapers is repugnant. People say: “One can't help one's thoughts.” But one can. The control of the thinking machine is perfectly possible. And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurts us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, it is supremely important to be able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain. Without the power to ensure

You cannot waste time in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose. The idea of devoting thirty or forty consecutive minutes of wonderful solitude reading of newspapers is repugnant. People say: “One can't help one's thoughts.” But one can. The control of the thinking machine is perfectly possible. And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurts us or gives us pleasure e

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