This book, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
“What?” you cry. “You pretend to show us how to live, and you only deal with seven hours and a half out a hundred and sixty-eight! Are you going to perform a miracle with your seven hours and half?” Well, not to mince the matter, I am — if you will kindly let me! That is to say, I am going to ask you to attempt an experience which, while perfectly natural and explicable, has the air of a miracle. My contention is that the full use of those seven and a half hours will quicken the whole life of the week, add zest to it, and increase the interest which you feel in even the most banal occupations. You practice physical exercises for a mere ten minutes morning and evening, and yet you are not astonished when your physical health and strength are beneficially affected every hour of the day, and your whole physical outlook changed. Why should you be astonished that an average of over an hour a day given to the mind should permanently and completely enliven the whole activity of the mind?”
For many reasons, reading that paragraph felt like a burden was lifted off my shoulders.
