once you no longer need to convince yourself that you’ll do everything that needs doing, you’re free to focus on doing a few things that count.

Bennett recommends an hour and a half to be stolen from each day and spent improving the mind. Novels are excluded from the provinces of the illuminating; instead, we are pointed towards anything we might find educative (though satisfyingly he does recommend Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, saying he never travels without the latter). If we are untou