[Of his plan for achieving virtue, which I used as a model for my happiness project] “On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.” –Benjamin Franklin.
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Franklin’s point fits in with the arguments made by the two articles I linked to yesterday. Mastery (including self-mastery) comes from effort and practice.
