The 13 Virtues of Ben Franklin: A system for success

By Henry Oculus

As Benjamin Franklin was building up his newspaper business, he noticed that his morals were slipping-he would talk a lot about himself and didn't make time for all of his affairs. Franklin, noticing his descent, developed the desire for the perfection of his character, believing that admirable virtue was rewarded and "vice punished." However, he also found it surprisingly difficult to act with a perfect conscience-the task of moral perfection seemed impossible. Therefore, he created a system to slowly implement necessary virtues into his habitation. Franklin came up with thirteen virtues that he ordered from 1 to 13; the perfection of the first lending itself to the perfection of the second, and so on. Franklin's system is simple and is contained in this book: he would write the thirteen virtues down one side of a page and the days of the week across the top. He then ruled lines down and across to make a chart. At the end of the day, he'd mark a dot for every failing in every virtue for that day. Every week he would focus on a different virtue (starting with the first) and try to keep that line clean of dots, representing moral failings, for that week. After a week, he'd move on to the next virtue, trying to keep that virtue clean. Over time, he saw improvement in his morality and judgment. Enclosed in this book is the charts written out for you and the virtue that you should focus on for each week. I hope this makes it simpler to follow Benjamin Franklin's system and that great success awaits you because of this book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09M12BW41
• ISBN13: 9798762510387
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"