Arnold Bennett
“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (1908)
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Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (1908)
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“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
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Bennett wrote one of the first self-help books and refused to make it feel good. Even improvement, he warns, costs you something — the discomfort isn’t a sign you’re doing it wrong; it’s the toll. Nobody was writing that in 1908.
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Change is never easy — whether you embrace it or deny it. I wanted the honest version on things that matter.
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