13 Virtues In Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

In Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography, he explains his thirteen virtues that he has observed to achieve perfection. He believes that in order to achieve perfection in all aspects of life, you must follow a strict lifestyle that adapts to the thirteen virtues he created. During the three weeks, I followed the cleanliness, silence, and temperance virtues. After experiencing the virtues for three weeks, I realized how I needed to change how I was living.

During the first week of the examination, I learned through the temperance trait that I am not at all very good at keeping track of my diet. Most of the week, I found myself eating whenever I was bored. For example, when I came home from school on Friday, I realized that, on normal days, I …show more content…
I tried my hardest to keep from engaging in useless chatter, but I found myself starting random, irrelevant conversations with people. For example, one day before our chemistry class had started, I began to talk to one of the other students about something that had happened at lunch that day. The conversation continued throughout the rest of the day, until I had realized that the conversation was completely off-topic and not related to any of my classes that day. It was just stupid gossip! Although, two days later, I actually did quite well with cutting down on useless conversations. Most of the day, I kept to myself, only talking to someone if they started the conversation. This is important because I needed this situation to show me that I chatter whenever a situation becomes awkward or stressful, and I really should channel that bad energy into something, instead of saying random things to people. Now, I will start to process what I am going to say before I …show more content…
This week’s experience taught me that I am not a very tidy person when it comes to the cleanliness of home. For example, I came home from school one day, and it was a mess. Clothes were thrown everywhere, shoes littered the floor, papers for school were scattered across the desk. I had to instantly clean my room because I felt extremely gross and messy, and I felt like I couldn’t get anything done with my room in that condition. It was hard for me to concentrate on homework when my room was such a mess, and I had finally realized this. For the rest of the week, I tried to keep my room as clean as I could. I did really well after my illumination that connected my bad studying habits to my awfully messy room. Even my parents and my sister noticed that I had been doing better with keeping my room clean. This is important because when I started to take better care of my room, I began to focus better on homework and get things done faster. In the future, I am going to continue cleaning my room on a more frequent