Benjamin Franklin Accomplishments

People often have thoughts about other people having more enviable achievements than themselves do, but even if they think about doing things to change, their lack of perseverance still causes a poor outcome next time. Benjamin Franklin is one of the best example of a successful image throughout the history. Although having no eminent family background, he had himself work-hard to become a admirable person, one of the Founding Fathers of United States. Everyone fairly has 24 hours per day, yet he was able to surpass so many people in different realms. Benjamin Franklin had been through innumerable setbacks in his entire life, but other than making up excuses for his previous failures, on the other hand, Benjamin Franklin faced, understood,
and solved the problems. As Benjamin Franklin’s description in Autobiography, working hard, and living straight-righteously are the components of his well-reputation.
Benjamin Franklin was not born in a too rich family, he quitted school at a young age because his family could not afford it anymore.
However, during the year he studying at the grammar school, Benjamin Franklin had shown that his talents and maturity are far superior than other same-aged kids. In spite of not able to go to school, he still self-studied and tried to obtain any resources that he can possibly gain to continue studying. He indicated, “From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my hands was ever laid out in Books.” Talent itself, apparently, is never ample, Benjamin Franklin’s hard-working is actually the key point that makes him successful. After he stopped attending the grammar school, Benjamin Franklin helped his father making soaps, and at the age of twelve, he became an apprentice in his brother’s printing press learning printing skills. Though his life was tough, Benjamin Franklin still tried hard to absorb more information as much as possible. He incredibly learned while printing, after work, and during meals with his eagerness of pursuing his knowledge with any kinds of approaches. “I presently found that I could save half what he paid me. This was an additional Fund for buying Books” One of the reasons that Franklin turned into vegetarian is because he could save money by not eating meat to buy more books to read. What Benjamin Franklin had done sowed the seeds of the solid foundations for his future on politics, science, history, literature and some other
fields.
Benjamin Franklin not only shows readers his hard-working on the path to the success, but, in the book of Autobiography, he also revealed the one of the most famous representations of him―thirteen virtues: Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity, Justice, Moderation, Cleanliness, Tranquillity, Chastity, and Humility. “I propos’d to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annex’d to each, than a few names with more ideas; and I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurr’d to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully express’d the extent I gave to its meaning.” Benjamin Franklin added on annotations of all thirteen virtues to clarify and remind himself what is specifically he wanted to accomplish. To come up with these ideas is not as difficult, but people usually give upon doing it in the middle of the way.Nevertheless, to keep himself on track, Benjamin Franklin regulated himself by making a chart to check if he does well on the thirteen virtues. Strictly focusing on adjusting one virtue each week, Benjamin Franklin, in one year, went through all thirteen in four cycles.