{"product_id":"the-drawbacks-bennett-t-shirt","title":"The Drawbacks — Bennett T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eBennett published “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day” in 1908 — the first modern self-help book. He wasn’t selling optimism. He was describing how change actually works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (1908)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBennett wrote this in 1908, in Chapter VI of what was essentially the first modern productivity manual. He wasn’t selling motivation. He was describing how change actually works: uncomfortable, resistant, accompanied by friction even when it’s exactly what you wanted. He said it because people kept abandoning better habits the first time they hurt. 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