Benjamin Franklin described his well-known decision-making process in a letter to Joseph Priestley who had asked Franklin's advice about a vexing decision. Essentially, Franklin's process is a matter of listing the Pros and Cons, reflecting on them, and making your decision.
Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general.
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Franklin planned and managed his time and activities in a disciplined way. A tool he developed for himself was the five-hour rule. The rule dictates that five hours each week must be spent learning – one hour each day, excepting weekends.
Franklin's Writing Model The improvement method Franklin chose follows a pattern of deconstructing a story or article by breaking it apart, writing passages in his own thoughts, and then going back to his own writing later to reconstruct the writing into something meaningful and elegant.
The Ben Franklin Close is a sales closing strategy where a salesperson builds a pros-and-cons list with a prospect about a specific offering. The method lets a sales rep better understand their prospect's values and priorities while allowing them to clearly convey a product or service's benefits.
The Benjamin Franklin effect is the brain's effort to resolve the cognitive dissonance we experience when we do a favor for someone we don't particularly like. In order to rationalize our behaviour, we convince ourselves that we must like the person otherwise we would never have done them the favor.
After working for several different employers in the printing business, Franklin set up a printing shop in partnership with Hugh Meredith in 1728. Two years later, he bought out his partner and he was on his own at the tender age of 24. In 1729, Benjamin became the publisher of The Pennsylvania Gazette.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin appear to have called the work his Memoirs.
Franklin was a notorious womanizer. Although Franklin was an inveterate flirt, and he sired an illegitimate child before his 1730 wedding to Deborah Reed Rogers, there is no evidence that he had any affairs during his marriage.