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Having read an enjoyed Arnold Bennett's How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: The Key to a Fuller, Richer Life How to live on 24 hours a day I thought I'd read this one as well. He writes in an amusing style and offers common sense advice not just about mental efficiency but about marriage and books among other things. I particularly liked the piece about books and his attitude that you can never have too many books and it doesn't really matter whether you read them or not as you can still derive goodness from just having the books sitting on your shelves.
Marriage is discussed and the British and French marriage customs analysed. Romantic love, he decides, is maybe not the best basis for and enduring marriage he decides. He waxes lyrical about his dislike of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and decides he has scuppered his chances of being allowed into the US by criticising the book.
I like Bennett's style of writing and he has a knack of describing human foibles in a way which is still relevant to the twenty first century. Reading his journalism has made me keen to read his novels.
Marriage is discussed and the British and French marriage customs analysed. Romantic love, he decides, is maybe not the best basis for and enduring marriage he decides. He waxes lyrical about his dislike of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and decides he has scuppered his chances of being allowed into the US by criticising the book.
I like Bennett's style of writing and he has a knack of describing human foibles in a way which is still relevant to the twenty first century. Reading his journalism has made me keen to read his novels.
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Thought-provoking, despite its age
30 Jan 2012
Format:Paperback
I found this book at my university library and started reading it, expecting it to be antiquated. I was surprised to find references to meditation in this 1911 book. He recommends setting aside an hour of the day to do mental exercises, just as one might do physical exercises. There aren't many examples given, but one good example would be reading an article, and trying to recall a summary of it. Now, if you know anything about meditation and have read many self-help books you may not learn much, but it's very inspiring. It's almost worth reading by the fact that it seems so shocking that someone of that time was so perceptive of the mind.
Towards the end of the book, he digresses onto philosophical topics, and seems to be influenced by Buddhism:
If I miss my train, or my tailor disgraces
himself, or I lose that earthly manifestation of Force that happens to
be dearest to me, I say to my mind: "Mind, concentrate your powers
upon the full realization of the fact that I, your master, am immortal
and beyond the reach of accidents." And my mind, knowing by this time
that I am a hard master, obediently does so. Am I, a portion of the
Infinite Force that existed billions of years ago, and which will
exist billions of years hence, going to allow myself to be worried by
any terrestrial physical or mental event? I am not. As for the
vicissitudes of my body, that servant of my servant, it had better
keep its place, and not make too much fuss. Not that any fuss
occurring in either of these outward envelopes of the eternal _me_
could really disturb me. The eternal is calm; it has the best reason
for being so.
Towards the end of the book, he digresses onto philosophical topics, and seems to be influenced by Buddhism:
If I miss my train, or my tailor disgraces
himself, or I lose that earthly manifestation of Force that happens to
be dearest to me, I say to my mind: "Mind, concentrate your powers
upon the full realization of the fact that I, your master, am immortal
and beyond the reach of accidents." And my mind, knowing by this time
that I am a hard master, obediently does so. Am I, a portion of the
Infinite Force that existed billions of years ago, and which will
exist billions of years hence, going to allow myself to be worried by
any terrestrial physical or mental event? I am not. As for the
vicissitudes of my body, that servant of my servant, it had better
keep its place, and not make too much fuss. Not that any fuss
occurring in either of these outward envelopes of the eternal _me_
could really disturb me. The eternal is calm; it has the best reason
for being so.
8 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Appealing
20 Dec 2005
Format:Paperback
Along the lines of James Allen and OM Swett - a great read for those who are interested in early motivational and self help authors in the field of life management and business success.
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Another excellent exercise is to read a page of no-matter-what, and then immediately to write downin one's own words or in the author'sone's full recollection of it. A quarter of an hour a day! No more! And it works like magic.
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The remedy, then, divides itself into two parts, the cultivation of will-power, and the getting into condition of the mental apparatus. And these two branches of the cure must be worked concurrently.
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Mental efficiency can be gained by constant practice in meditationi.e., by concentrating the mind, say, for but ten minutes daily, but with absolute regularity, on some of the highest thoughts of which it is capable. Failures will be frequent, but they must be regarded with simple indifference and dogged perseverance in the path chosen. If that path be followed without intermission even for a few weeks the results will speak for themselves."
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