“He was, during his eighty-four-year-long life America’s best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical…political thinks.” (Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life) Franklin also took to himself to better the public, he founded a college and started libraries. He formed a volunteer fire department and came up with the idea of a matching grant. He also wrote some of the first “self-help” books in colonial America. Franklin was an extremely accomplished man, but at the end of the day he always identified as B. Franklin, printer. Printing was his first trade and one he was extremely successful in due to his writing ability. He began when he was only 22 and slowly grew his business …show more content…
He did not practice or embrace all aspects of religion and this was very off-putting to people at the time. Franklin believed that the only way to truly serve god was to do good by your fellow man. Franklin did not believe that we are at the hands of an angry and complacent god, who will only be satisfied by true grace. (Which was the common belief back then) He also tied his belief of private virtue to civic virtue. As he wrote for one of his libraries mottos “To pour forth benefits for the common good is divine.” Franklin also identified and flagged a belief we all know to be true, but not all be willing to accept. Success isn’t made by huge defining events, it may be defined by them, but it is the small advances that we make every single day that ultimately leads us to success. So keep making a small advance every single day, it is what will lead you to your defining moments. Franklin was also very meticulous on how he spent his time, no matter what task was at hand for the day we would give it about 8 hours. He divided that into 2 halves with about an hour for lunch. He would go all in for those 8 hours, this constant routine allowed him to get far more engaged into any task at hand because each task was part of a set