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Wow Logan of 60 minutes coming up in about 10-15 minutes talking some of what she did on

60 minutes a few weeks ago about how Afghanistan is bad as it's ever been since she's been reporting

from there right the opposite of some of what we're being told we've spent a trillion

dollars so more on that coming up so I'm torn on this Ben Franklin in his system of virtues

this is a perfect thing to devote an entire half hour to segments to or your life in fact

well yeah well yeah um a founding father but not a member of Congress not a lawmaker not a president

no in many ways you know it was just an intellectual leader thinker and an important ambassador too

but so we don't really have time to do this fully so do I go through it really really quickly

or do we just hold off until tomorrow and and do it you know more thoroughly why don't you give me a

taste of it okay all right don't get hung up on the system here but what Ben Franklin did

and he credits all of his success to practicing 13 core life virtues yeah but what did he ever do

yeah 13 virtues ever heard of the post office you know slowing you down I'm sorry think you'd

have a little respect for the great man great political thinker scientist got laid a lot when

he was the ambassador to France fellas come on so listen he carried around in his pocket a simple

table with seven columns and 13 rows on it the seven columns were the days of the week each row

represented one of the 13 virtues he wanted to work on during the day he'd glance at these virtues

a timer to to keep them fresh in the mind then his mind then at the end of the day he'd pull out a

pen go through the virtues asking himself if he'd actually practice them during the day and marking

the box if he had done so wow his goal was to fill as many boxes possible each week but wait

not all the charts were identical in fact he had 13 variations of the chart which he cycled

through every 13 weeks this is the part not to get hung up a little complicated but it's it just

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