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In How To Live On 24 Hours A Day, one of the first self-help books, Bennett gives the readers practical and invaluable advice on how to make best use of the most valuable commodity, time. Summary Of The Book How To Live On 24 Hours A Day is part of Arnold Bennett’s work How To Live. Time, according to Bennett, is the most valuable and precious commodity, even more valuable than money. Everything depends on how you utilise your time. You have only 24 hours in a day, and nothing can change that. No amount of money can buy you time. In this book, Bennett gives us valuable advice on how to make the best use of time, and better yourself in every possible way. The chapters in the book include The Daily Miracle, Precautions Before Beginning, Remember Human Nature, Controlling the Mind, Nothing in Life is Humdrum, and Dangers to Avoid. Bennett gives us effective tips on how to use the 24 hours we have in one day, in the best possible way. In these 24 hours, we have to make time for everything, health, wealth, pleasure, and work. We have to find and seize extra time. We can find this extra time by getting up early. Rise an hour early, and you will realize you can get more work done in this time, than you can during any other time of the day. There are other ways to find that extra time, on your way to and from work, in the evening hours, after work, and mainly during weekends. Bennett advises the readers to start with little time in the beginning, as little as 90 minutes. The author advises readers to use this time for self-improvement. Read good literature, try and learn more about your business, about philosophy and history. However, the author also warns us not to become a slave of the new programme. It is important to find the proper balance between flexibility and rigidity. One of the most read self-help books of its time, How to Live On 24 Hours A Day continues to be one of the most recommended books on time-management since it was published in 1908. About Arnold Bennett Born in Hanley, Staffordshire, in 1867, Arnold Bennett went on to become one of the most popular English novelists. He was best known for his novels like A Man From the North, The Old Wives’ Tale, Hugo, The Clayhanger Trilogy, The Card, Buried Alive, The Gates of Wrath, Leonora, and The Regent. His popular non-fiction works include Literary Taste: How To Form It, The Savour Of Life, Fame and Fiction, and How To Live, which included The Human Machine, Mental Efficiency, and Self and Self-Management. Bennett started his writing career as a journalist. However, he gave up journalism to take up a full-time career as a novelist. Bennett was also a part of the War Propaganda Bureau, after the outbreak of the First World War. He and 24 other leading English writers were assigned to promote Britain’s interests during the war. Bennett contributed several articles to the cause. Bennett and his French wife separated in 1921. He then fell in love with and stayed with actress Dorothy Cheston, though the two were never married. Arnold Bennett died of typhoid in London, in 1931.