How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, written by Arnold Bennett, is part of a larger work entitled How to Live. In this volume, he offers practical advice on how one might live (as opposed to just existing) within the confines of 24 hours a day. In the book, Bennett addressed the large and growing number of white-collar workers that had accumulated since the advent of the Industrial Revolution. In his view, these workers put in eight hours a day, 40 hours a week, at jobs they did not enjoy, and at worst hated. They worked to make a living, but their daily existence consisted of waking up, getting ready for work, working as little as possible during the work day, going home, unwinding, going to sleep, and repeating the process the next day. In short, he didn't believe they were really living. Bennett wrote that time is the most precious of commodities. Time can often produce money, but money cannot produce more time. Time is extremely limited, and Bennett urged others to make the best of the time remaining in their lives.
《悠游度过一天的24小时》是英国一位多产作家阿诺德·本涅特的非小说类作品，它以其清新幽默、切中要害的笔触向我们表明了一个人如何靠更有效地利用时间来提高自己的生活质量。《悠游度过一天的24小时》被誉为"一本关于时间管理的经典之作"。