Quiz: Test Your Order
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Are you proud of your humility?
You know the moment. You’re locked in a heated conversation, and you notice a weak spot in the other person’s argument. You want immediately to jump in, cut them off mid-sentence, and proclaim how ridiculous they are for believing something so obviously stupid. As a twenty-something know-it-all, Benjamin Franklin was often guilty of going… Read more »
Resolution
The packed and pulsating health clubs familiar to January gym-goers are a far cry from Ben Franklin’s candlelit eighteenth century, when a scarcity of food and transportation would have rendered running in place or calorie restriction bizarre, if insane activities. Nearly three hundred years after Franklin crafted his famous thirteen virtues, however, it is around… Read more »
Chastity
Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation. Ben Franklin’s “bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection,” the venture for which he derived his 13 virtues, was not primarily aimed at ensuring professional success. And yet, given… Read more »
Industry
Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. Franklin had a love for maxims, which he both collected and confected for his Poor Richard’s Almanack. Today, none of them is better remembered than “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” Mark… Read more »
Quiz: Test Your Humility
Test your level of humility and discover where you rate on the ego scale. Made by the 92nd Street Y and William Damon & Anne Colby, authors of the new book The Power of Ideals.