How To Live On 24 Hours A Day - Advice

Advice

In the book, Bennett offers the following advice:

  • Claim 90 minutes an evening for three evenings a week, to start with. More time can be found, but Bennett recommends starting small, instead of attempting a large enterprise and failing.
  • Those 90 minutes can be claimed in the evening, in the morning, on the train to and from work, or other time that isn't put to good use. He recommends evenings for most people, but it depends on your schedule.
  • Use that 90 minutes to improve yourself. Over the course of weeks and months, the knowledge gained in those chunks of time will add up to a significant amount.
  • Literature is not the only means of self-improvement. Other reading can be very beneficial, including learning more about your business, learning about the "causes and effects" of things, and learning about history and philosophy.
  • He doesn't recommend reading novels for self-improvement. He highly recommends poetry, especially verse novels such as Milton's "Paradise Lost".

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