The Human Machine
Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. As he writes: "I am simply bent on calling your attention to a fact which has perhaps wholly or partially escaped you -- namely, that you are the most fascinating bit of machinery that ever was."
As ever, his prose is honeyed, his thoughts inspired, and his advice as relevant today as when it was written.
Genre(s): Philosophy, Psychology, Self-Help
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | 01 Taking Oneself for Granted | Ruth Golding |
00:12:31 |
Play 02 | 02 Amateurs in the Art of Living | Ruth Golding |
00:10:02 |
Play 03 | 03 The Brain as a Gentleman-at-Large | Ruth Golding |
00:10:32 |
Play 04 | 04 The First Practical Step | Ruth Golding |
00:10:03 |
Play 05 | 05 Habit-forming by Concentration | Ruth Golding |
00:10:40 |
Play 06 | 06 Lord over the Noddle | Ruth Golding |
00:10:05 |
Play 07 | 07 What 'Living' Chiefly Is | Ruth Golding |
00:11:01 |
Play 08 | 08 The Daily Friction | Ruth Golding |
00:10:54 |
Play 09 | 09 'Fire!' | Ruth Golding |
00:10:42 |
Play 10 | 10 Mischievously Overworking It | Ruth Golding |
00:10:14 |
Play 11 | 11 An Interlude | Ruth Golding |
00:10:59 |
Play 12 | 12 An Interest in Life | Ruth Golding |
00:09:18 |
Play 13 | 13 Success and Failure | Ruth Golding |
00:09:12 |
Play 14 | 14 A Man and His Environment | Ruth Golding |
00:10:33 |
Play 15 | 15 L. S. D. | Ruth Golding |
00:11:18 |
Play 16 | 16 Reason! Reason! | Ruth Golding |
00:10:25 |