How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

al case for examination. I can only deal with one case, and that case cannot be the average case, because there is no s

minutes morning and night in travelling between his house door and his office door, I shall have got as near to the averag

s here; for our present purpose the clerk at a pound a week is

s he does not precisely feel a passion for his business; at best he does not dislike it. He begins his business functions with reluctance, as late as he can, and he ends them with joy, as early as he can. And his engines wh

e six hours following them are nothing but a prologue and epilogue. Such an attitude, unconscious though it be, of course kills his interes

ch of activities which the man's one idea is to "get through" and have "done with." If a man makes two-thirds of his existence subser

during all these sixteen hours he has nothing whatever to do but cultivate his body and his soul and his fellow men. During those sixteen hours he is free; he is not a wage-earner; he is not preoccupied with monetary cares; he is just

assuredly increase the value of the business eight. One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculti

ning with his uprising. I will merely indicate things which he does and which I think he ought not to do, postpo

, which are tireless, become idle. He walks to the station in a condition of mental coma. Arrived there, he usually has to wait for the train. On hundreds of suburban stations every morning you see men calmly strolling up and down platforms while railway companie

call it a sovereign. He must get change for it, a

t we shall charge you three halfpence for doing so," what would my typical man exclaim? Yet

minutiae. I am. And late

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