The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

핵심 요약

• 모방하고 기억해 다시 쓰고 비교하며 익혀라
• 덕목을 표로 정리해 하나씩 실천하라
• 평판은 매일 사람들에게 보이는 모습으로 쌓인다
• 겸손하게 말할 때 상대의 반감이 사라진다
• 공을 나누면 더 많은 일을 이룰 수 있다

이 비트의 내용

1. 자수성가한 삶의 담백한 고백

   A teenage runaway walks into Philadelphia with a few coins, buys three bread rolls and wanders the streets eating one with the others under his arms. The girl watching him laugh will later become his wife.

2. 모방을 통한 독학

   Franklin left school at 10 and learned to write by copying the best. He took essays from an English magazine he admired, made short notes on each, put them away for days, then tried to rebuild the essays from the notes in his own words.

3. 장부에 기록한 열세 가지 덕목

   Franklin wanted to be morally perfect and, being practical, he built a system. He listed 13 virtues, among them temperance, silence, order, frugality, industry, sincerity and humility, and gave each a short rule.

4. 근면과 절약, 그리고 평판

   Franklin built his printing business on two virtues and one insight. The virtues were industry and frugality: work long hours, avoid debt, spend little.

5. 부드럽게 설득하고 함께 만들기

   Young Franklin loved to win arguments and noticed it made him enemies. So he changed his speech, dropping words like certainly and undoubtedly, and saying instead that he imagined a thing to be so, or that it seemed to him.

6. 직접 적용해 보기

   Pick one piece of writing you admire, make notes on it, wait 3 days and rewrite it from the notes, then compare. Draw a grid of 5 habits you want against the days of this week and mark each lapse with a dot; tackle only one habit at a time.