How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

de our own brain; since nothing hurts us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysteri

to concentrate, not witting that they

er to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience - true lif

hole army of individuals, from the milkman to the pig-killer, to enable you to bribe your stomach into decent behaviour. Why not devote a little attention to the far more delicate machinery of the mind, espe

train, and in the crowded street again?" Precisely. Nothing simpler! N

to begin with). You will not have gone ten yards before your mind has skipped

of concentration. Do you not remember that morning when you received a disquieting letter which demanded a very carefully-worded answer? How you kept your mind steadily on the subject of the answer, without a second's intermission, until you reached your office; whereupon you

at place. The exercise is a very convenient one. If you got into your morning train with a pair of dumb-bells for your muscles or an encyclopaedia in ten volumes for your learning, you would probably excite remark. But as

inking machine that counts. But still, you may as well kill two birds with one stone, and concentrate on

le to the daily life of plain persons like you and me (who hate airs, pose, and nonsense) than Marcus Aurelius or Epictetus.

to yourself: "This fellow was doing pretty well up to his seventh chapter. He had begun to interest me faintly. But what he says a

peat; it is for you. Indeed, you

suggestion of the most sensible, practical, hard-headed men who have walked the earth. I only give it you at second-hand. Try it. Get your