Reading content: Translator's introduction, table of contents, road to wealth, Franklin's chronology.

Old Knowledge

I think it is very happy to have someone to rely on. This has a lot to do with the fact that I am the youngest daughter in the family. As long as there is a second person around me, I will not realize it. into dependency mode.

My mother always said that when I find an opportunity, I will become dependent and lazy, but I can do things well when I am alone.

And I always feel that in life, it doesn’t matter if you are lazy occasionally, but if you are lazy, time will lengthen.

New knowledge

Compared with ordinary heavy taxes, laziness will tax us twice as much, pride will tax us as an escort, and stupidity will tax us four times as much.

On the road to becoming rich, we feel that exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are exploiting us, but in fact our own laziness is a bigger factor affecting our getting rich, and it is because of laziness that we waste a lot of time and are not self-conscious. Know.

People are saved in this world not by trust, but by lack of trust.

Excessive reliance on others in life will weaken your initiative and action, and you will become less and less capable of self-salvation. Others can at most give you a little help, and salvation is something that can only be achieved by your own actions.

Action list

Get up at 4:30 and read for an hour in the morning

Make breakfast by yourself

Go check the car by yourself