Perhaps you said to yourself, “This man will show me an easy, unfatiguing way of doing what I have so long in vain wished to do.” Alas, no! The fact is that there is no easy way, no royal road. The path to Mecca is extremely hard and stony, and the worst of it is that you never quite get there after all.

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Mind control is the first element of a full existence.

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What asinine boor can laugh at you?

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There is much pleasure to be derived from being a specialist

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The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year.

Unless you give at least forty-five minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your ninety minutes of a night are chiefly wasted. This means that your pace will be slow.

I won’t lie. I do like self-help.

It doesn’t hurt to search for an idea or two that might make you a better human being. Arnold Bennett‘s short How to Live on 24 hours a day, while dated, has more bangers per page than any self-help book I’ve read.

I mean, asinine boar? Lets go.

Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (New York: George H. Doran, 1910), Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2274.