hi this is Brian welcome back to another heroic plus one and the last couple plus ones we spent some time with Cal Newport as you may recall I am deeply inspired by his wisdom admonition don't take breaks from distraction instead take breaks from Focus that's a big idea we also discussed the fact that Cal showed up in a recent Economist article that featured a couple of self-development gurus James clear and Arnold Bennett if you're even remotely interested in self-development and or have been even remotely following along I'm 99% sure you know that James Clear is
the best-selling author of atomic habits check out those notes for more but even if you're really into self-development you probably haven't heard of let alone studied Arnold Bennett and his great little book how to live on 24 hours a day so that's what we're going to discuss today let's get to work Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 he was an English novelist and playwright and he was a contemporary of Dale Carnegie I got this great little book after Carnegie raved about it in his book How to Win Friends and Influence People now in his tiny
little booklet Bennett tells us that most people focus on how to get by on a budget of x per day but what we really should be thinking about is how we can most effectively use the precious 24 hours were given every day here's how he puts it and I quote Arnold you have to live on this 24 hours of daily time out of it you have to spend Health pleasure money respect and the evolution of your Immortal Soul it's right use its most effective use is a matter of the highest urgency and of the most
thrilling actuality all depends on that your happiness The elusive prize that you are all clutching for my friends depends on that strange that the newspapers so enterprising and upto-date as they are are not full of how to live on a given income of time instead of how to live on a given income of money he continues by saying which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life I shall alter that when I have a little more time and he says we never shall have any
more time we have and we have always had all the time there is it is the realization of this profound and neglected truth that has led me to the Practical examination of daily time expenditure and that's today's plus one we'll explore some more great ideas from his great little book in our next plus ones for now what's one thing you know you could start doing today that would help you get the most out of the next 24 hours you got it awesome go crush it and what's one thing you know you could stop doing today
that would help you get the most out of the next 24 hours you got it awesome stop doing that and a pro tip reminder remember the fastest way to change our lives is almost always removing the negative habits or kryptonites that are depleting our power here's to squeezing the joyful juice out of our next 24 hours it's day one we're all in let's go little PS here check out Masterpiece days 101 an old school class I taught years ago for more goodness on the subject
