How to Spend 24 Hours Every Day (Gomai Classic)

This book was written in 1907. It is hard to imagine that people 100 years ago were no different from now.

This book has two major shortcomings. One is that it is too old, and many of its views are no longer applicable today. The other is that the author is an upper-class intellectual. He usually has no other labor except work. After get off work, he is free to arrange his time according to his own wishes. But the core point of this book is still very useful. It tells us that the time after get off work is not an appendage of working time, but a new beginning in pursuing our life goals. We should use the same energy to treat after get off work time.

It is hard to imagine that this is a book written in 1907, because the ideas in the book are still applicable to office workers more than 100 years later, and they can benefit a lot. Work is not everything in life. After get off work, you need to switch your thinking, seize the time outside of work, arrange it reasonably, overcome inertia, take action now, start with small changes, do something that requires "effort", cherish every moment of free time, and make life more fulfilling and happy.

We cannot extend the length of life, but we can expand its width; You cannot increase the quantity of life, but you can improve its quality. You think you can't do it, you think you don't have enough time. But is there really not enough time? Or simply not using your time wisely? Time concept Time is equal and limited. Everyone has the same 24 hours every day. No matter whether you are rich or poor, or educated, you cannot buy or add time. Although in today's society, wealth has a great influence on how time is allocated, it does not affect people's view of time as the most precious wealth. The concept in the book is that "the 16 hours outside of work should not be regarded as ancillary to the 8 hours at work. People should spend 7.5 Hours a week to enrich their lives." The 8-hour work system may be a very common work intensity in developed countries-the United Kingdom, but in today's domestic market conditions, the intensity is obviously much greater than 12 hours. (For me, I work at the company for 11 to 12 hours a day and commute for 1 to 2 hours) However, there is no point in complaining about reality. As mentioned in the book, it is very important to find the fulcrum between work and life during busy work and time outside work, so as to cure the anxiety and internal friction caused by work. It is very, very important to find interests, exercise our body, train our minds, read books, and expand our abilities. Otherwise, we will always be able to rotate like machine parts without knowing it. Cherish time People often waste a lot of time without even realizing it. For example, many trivial activities in daily work and life (chatting, hanging out) consume a lot of energy and time, scrolling through Douyin, reading Tomato cool articles, reading beauties in Xiaohongshu, etc., Constantly draw people's attention and eat up all the time fragments. Time is the most precious resource. Cherishing time is not about formulating a rigid and mechanical schedule, but rather allocating time reasonably to different matters according to your own needs and goals. Socializing and relaxing entertainment in your leisure time are all necessary, but don't take up all your time. Specific time needs to be set aside for learning new knowledge and improving skills. In this process, focus is crucial. The feeling of staying focused and immersed in one thing is addictive. If you persist for a long time, you will gradually develop good habits, and slowly find that seemingly difficult things such as getting up early, reading, and exercising are also natural. And these habits gradually become part of life, allowing us to make rational use of time and improve ourselves unconsciously.

I'm about to finish reading it, and I'm a little reluctant to finish it. The number of words is very small, which is especially suitable for someone like me who doesn't like to read. The author's humorous tone enriches the reading experience. Although I can't write any insights, I highly recommend reading it. People who love reading will definitely finish it in a short time.

It took me two hours to read it. I had some troubles along the way, but finally got into the groove, and finally gained some insights to make a bold recommendation. This book can be called a broken window effect. It first teaches us that every day, we must leave 1.5 To two hours of meaningful time after get off work. During this time, you can use it to do things that interest you, even if you go outside to gain insights or go shopping. Secondly, after you get used to this point, reading is definitely indispensable. Of course, you can't read everything. You can read something you are interested in or find meaningful, even if it is placed on the bookshelf. Complete a little bit of reading every day or every week and every month. Over time, after a year of persistence, remember that execution is the most important thing. Dreaming is useless. Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, and write like a god. Finally, this book explains to us a real path to success in life. Success may not necessarily be in politics, business, art or science, but it must be commendable if you go on this path, because this path is admired by others. This book can help you find your life goal when you are confused. It comes from a short-sighted reading stranger.

This book has a lot of theoretical explanations, but relatively few practical methods. But his theoretical explanation is more straightforward and has more examples to illustrate, so the content sounds quite easy to accept, allowing us to have a clearer concept of time management.

It is a very real and unpretentious book. It is completely based on reality. It is not a framework for people to get into, but it is very close to the needs of life. Including living in the present, the definition of success and happiness, as well as work and after work, the future is now, and living the 24 hours this year is our top priority. Psychological preparation: It does not allow us to deceive ourselves and others. There is no panacea that can improve our abilities. We need to be mentally prepared and not shrink back. The book is just a reminder. Real ability requires following the reminders in daily life to find your true direction, method and rhythm of life. Staying calm and not too enthusiastic is very difficult and requires sacrifice and perseverance. Let it go: do it, go, go Control your thoughts: Keep training yourself to focus every day. There is no other way but perseverance. You may go back and forth forty times, but don't be frustrated. This is real and correct. To recite, to retell, to read, to record the non-self, to think, to live in the present, to use them to chase your desires, and at the same time be kind to others, and constantly heal yourself. You are the gift the world gives to the world.

This book tells me a truth, just do what you should do, study, learn skills, exercise, or even find a way to clean the yard. As long as you think it will improve yourself, then do it! Don't care about other people's eyes. Of course, don't take the initiative to express anything. Just do it. When you succeed, or even when you have a small achievement, the joy of the spirit will naturally filter out a lot of negative comments and emotions, so that people can focus more on improving themselves, and ultimately make their quality of life better and better. Of course, this book talks about a lot of viewpoints and methods, allowing people to focus more on doing things and make better use of time. In short, it is a short story. If you spend a little time reading it, you will definitely gain something.

I don't know whether it's due to translation or the different expressions of cultural differences. Some of the content is hard to understand, and I don't know what the author wants to express. But I still give it five stars because the core views expressed by the author can change and enlighten many people. The issue of time priority. We always focus our time on work, and time outside of work is always ignored by us. Everything we do at other times is to prepare for "going to work." In fact, the most important thing to arrange is time outside of work. For example, when I used to go to work at 14 o'clock, I might wake up at 10 o'clock, then check my mobile phone until 12 o'clock, get up, have something to eat and go to work. If you don't go to work, you may stay even later, and your whole day will be wasted. When I wake up, I just think about how long it will take to go to work. I never thought I would have a few hours to do something before going to work. There are fixed times when you go to work, and there are things you should do when you go to work. Going to work is the time that we least need to arrange. On the contrary, we need to enrich the remaining free time. What can you do in the two hours before going to work, and what can you do in the few hours after get off work. You can even do something with an uninterrupted hour. Focus your thoughts and focus on time outside of work. Life is the main thing, work is secondary. Don't let work take up all our energy and neglect our own real life.

There is some help, but not much. However, I think the author's discussion and essence of various social phenomena are quite correct.

If someone can read this comment of mine, I want to tell you that if you can't have enough energy every day, be full of brain power, have no internal consumption, have strong execution ability, be able to control your thoughts, and maintain concentration, there will be no problem at all, because everyone's brain is born different. If these People with low energy force themselves to meet the standards of people with high energy, and if they fail to do so, they will feel guilty and accept blame from others. Then you will be getting closer and closer to mental problems. Since there are already capitalists enslaving you, you should not be a capitalist of your own brain. It is great to live your life without wasting it.

The writing style is very sharp and interesting, and the part about the concept of time is good. It can help people in many aspects of consciousness, but it also needs to be read in conjunction with many metacognitive books. Here I recommend "Motivational Psychology", "Muji Note-taking Technique" and "Sato Kashiwa's Super Organizing Technique", which have similar views to this book.

It's well written, very humorous, and some of the ideas are very enlightening. If your steak is burnt and you scold the waiter, you lose face and the waiter gets scolded in vain. The steak is still the same steak. If you use your rationality and gently ask the waiter for a different steak, you save face and get a good steak. It was also mentioned that success, in fact, cannot be learned. It is based on human temperament or accidental. In fact, most people do not want to succeed. (If you change it to the life schedule of a so-called successful person, you may not be able to bear it for a long time. Mention doing something that uses your brain in your spare time. Don't let the seven or eight hours after get off work and before work go to waste. Life will be better. Worth watching.

It solved some of my recent doubts. For example, the book mentions that the meaning of life is explained in this way. Grasping the causal relationship can make life less painful and more exciting. For a high school student, the most worrying thing is not knowing what he is studying so hard every day. He thought about it a lot before, maybe for the sake of grades and future, so he didn't like the answer and wanted to find his own meaning, so his grades continued to decline. This book gave me a wake-up call. What I learned is to look for causal relationships and the laws of the development of things. Only these can best enrich our minds and prevent us from becoming so vulgar in life.

Another approach gives some better ideas. In one sentence, you can spend ten minutes every day to cultivate your concentration and maintain your curiosity. In addition, you can spend three nights a week, about 7.9 Hours, to do something you like. If you achieve a small success in this, it will have a positive motivating effect on yourself, and it will become easier to succeed in other things.

"People often indulge in regret, which is a slightly vicious spiritual enjoyment." In fact, I have read a few books of this type recently, and I understand the truth, but it is really difficult to change. Just like just now, I was still addicted to regret, but after realizing this problem, I began to deliberately let myself think in other directions, thinking about today and tomorrow instead of yesterday. "I would rather gain a small success than a glorious failure, because after a small success, there may be a greater success." I think this is true. Failure will make people lose the motivation to act again. In fact, I have made up my mind many times to read more books and learn English well. I always made plans before, but the plans never came true (from the first year of junior high school to the first year of college). This time I had no plan and started reading the first book first. Miraculously, I persisted with the first word. Then I hope everyone can live a good 24 hours a day and live a happy and smooth life!

I have read more than half of it without realizing it. The title of the book seems to teach people how to live a good life, but the content is more about ways to improve various aspects of people. Outside of work, choose something that interests you to study. If there is nothing you are interested in, then explore in this universe, because the universe is always open and there are always things you are interested in. Of course, if someone really values ​​work for its own sake, then it's okay to regard work as an interest in one's spiritual world. I can't do this for the time being. I'm lucky if I don't hate every job I do. The second thing is that the goal at the beginning should not be too ambitious. It is best to be a small thing, and a small change will do. Then there is the will, not the will to make up your mind to do it, but the will to persist in doing it. Moreover, brain power needs training. Reading, observing, writing, and using all your sensory functions can also exercise your brain. There are two ways to train concentration that is affected by short videos. One is to memorize anything. One is to retell, telling the books or fragments you have seen in your own words. Although the author feels that few people want to improve their brain and concentration by doing math problems, I think it is not impossible to do math problems. I haven't finished reading yet, so that's all I can comment on.

Life must have multiple support points. If the support point is too single, it will easily collapse. Just like stock trading, eggs cannot be put in one basket. After work, we have sixteen hours to live, instead of just sitting and waiting for work to come tomorrow. Start taking action

I feel that this book is simple, but I have to read many things several times before I can have deeper thoughts. I feel that I may accidentally miss something useful to me, but it is really good. I have always wanted to meditate but never did it, and I also want to learn many hobbies. But I always use studying to stop myself. In fact, I can't put all my energy into studying. I have learned a little, but I will start playing on my mobile phone and play aimlessly. I feel that if I make up my mind and want to learn more, I can use something to do it. Instead, for example, I like to watch videos while walking and waiting for people, and I like to watch videos when I go to the toilet in the morning, but it really occupies my attention, and my attention is instantly distracted. I feel that I need to use something simple instead, such as memorizing vocabulary. It is best to take a piece of paper, daze, or something. Anyway, it is something that is very simple and simple and does not require thinking, step by step. Also, don't be greedy for too much. I always arrange my schedule to be hour by hour, but I usually lose interest after studying for an hour or two and slip away. But if I study instead, I can study all morning, even though I feel very tired and I feel like I still haven't figured out many details about my time schedule.

It's quite interesting, and some of it can be adopted, such as 90 minutes to improve yourself every three to five nights. I plan to work hard to practice this. I reserve my opinion on some points, such as the last chapter about success (only my personal opinion).

The illustrations should have been added by later generations, just take a look. The final appendix should also have been added by the editor. It is too vulgar and runs counter to the content of the book. It is recommended to only read the text. It is a good book that makes us think about the nature and truth of life.

Time is not for management, but for awakening. After reading this little book, my biggest feeling is: We always want to "manage time", but we forget that time is not a problem at all - it is constant and always fair. The real dilemma is that we give up the most waking hours of the day to making a living, and then try to feed our souls with tired scraps. "You think you are short of time, but what you are actually lacking is the seriousness with which you treat time." Bennett's words made me understand that the brain never needs a "empty" rest, but needs "adjustment"; what is needed is to think in a different way, not to stop thinking. We sleep more often not because we are tired, but because there is nothing more interesting to wake up for. Bennett also said that controlling thoughts is not the hard work of self-discipline, but the threshold of freedom: when you can concentrate on one thing while commuting, and can perceive the chain of cause and effect while washing dishes, boring will disappear from the dictionary. What shocked me most about this book was that it said "Don't be too enthusiastic", because excessive enthusiasm will kill long-lasting will; it said "Avoid a bad start" because completing a small, simple thing can build confidence more than a grand plan. In the final analysis, the quality of life does not depend on what you do, but on whether you are present when you do everything.

The most important thing is to get a good life experience. Whether it is the beauty of music, the fascinating movies, or the wonderful experience of getting along with others, they are all very useful ways to cherish time and gain happiness.

I am grateful to have encountered such a good book. The older I get, the more confused I become. When I grow up, no one is there to supervise my studies like when I was a child. I become careless and have no pursuit. When I heard this book, I felt like a parent was patiently giving me guidance.

The book is very short, but the words in the book are very straightforward. There are often some sentences that can poke me and make me start to reflect on my past thoughts. Do not repeat yesterday/past thoughts. Yesterday/past things just happened to make you experience it, but there are more other choices today or tomorrow. Overall, it's worth reading. You can learn a lot from the words every time you read it.

Let me take a moment to write down my thoughts on the inside cover of this book. Time outside of work is also time, which is very useful. The body exercises gymnastics, and the brain also needs brain gymnastics. I have a lot of time, so I didn't care about wasting a lot of time. After reading this book, I have to stay alert and not lie on the boat all the time. I have to make my own flag to look for people on the shore and then paddle across. Time is wealth, used for work, marriage, family, physical exercise, social interaction, faith, study and relaxation. It's an outline. Give me an idea. No matter how much time I have, there are still 24 hours a day. Even if I have nothing to do, I can't always sleep, relax, and exercise. I must also find time to study, especially studying in school. Don't be pushed by the teacher, but do it on your own initiative. My general idea is that during the working hours of office workers, I will arrange the study at school. When office workers get off work, I will arrange my "after school" time. During the study period, learn what the teacher asks you to do. During the "after class" period, borrow a book from the library and read in the dormitory at night. Read paper books for an hour or two, play a few games, and watch short videos. I used to do regular fitness and running during the "after class" time, and I still continue to do that. I just have to arrange 1.5 Hours to do something, let's read paper books first.

I haven't found a feasible plan to exercise my brain that suits me, but I'm thinking about it. I feel like something is about to come out, but I can't throw it out. It's an inappropriate metaphor. I'm a little constipated at the moment. I need to do something but I don't know what to do, but I haven't stopped working hard. I don't know what to say.

The first chapter is all about theoretical explanations, and the last chapter is about practical operations. If you want to read quickly, the last chapter is the focus of this article. The full text is about the theoretical explanations of these practical operations, which is what I learned from this book. In addition, the article looks like a paper, with citations and references.

How would you rate this book? I give it five stars mainly because the illustrations in each section are so cute. The other parts are more like a chat, summarizing the core points. Don't delay your off-duty time because of working hours. How to spend your own time is very important.