Summary of Nathaniel Branden's How to Raise Your Self-Esteem

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#1 Franklin’s father, Josiah, was a nonconformist from Northamptonshire who had immigrated to the New World and become a candle and soap maker, one of the lowest of the artisan crafts. Franklin was the youngest son, and his father did not want him to attend college.

#2 The printing trade was a difficult, dirty, and physically demanding job. It was not very prestigious, and few families of substance would ever put their sons into it. But young Franklin was extremely ambitious and wanted to become a tolerable English writer.

#3 When Franklin’s brother found out who the author of the Silence Dogood essays was, he was not happy, as he thought the praise was making the young teenager too vain. The brothers began squabbling. Franklin realized his brother would not dare to reveal what he had done, so he took advantage of the situation and asserted his freedom.

#4 Franklin’s situation with his brother had become unbearable, and his standing in the Puritan-dominated community of Boston was little better. Since Franklin had become a little obnoxious to the governing Party, he decided to leave Boston.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669385554

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Franklin’s father, Josiah, was a nonconformist from Northamptonshire who had immigrated to the New World and become a candle and soap maker, one of the lowest of the artisan crafts. Franklin was the youngest son, and his father did not want him to attend college.

#2

The printing trade was a difficult, dirty, and physically demanding job. It was not very prestigious, and few families of substance would ever put their sons into it. But young Franklin was extremely ambitious and wanted to become a tolerable English writer.

#3

When Franklin’s brother found out who the author of the Silence Dogood essays was, he was not happy, as he thought the praise was making the young teenager too vain. The brothers began squabbling. Franklin realized his brother would not dare to reveal what he had done, so he took advantage of the situation and asserted his freedom.

#4

Franklin’s situation with his brother had become unbearable, and his standing in the Puritan-dominated community of Boston was little better. Since Franklin had become a little obnoxious to the governing Party, he decided to leave Boston.

#5

Franklin’s rise from extremely humble beginnings to worldwide fame was a story of heroic appeal. He always knew that it was the enormous gap between his very obscure beginnings and his later worldwide eminence that gave his story this appeal.

#6

The rise of Franklin was not unique in eighteenth century America. Many young men moved up the social ladder in both America and Britain in the eighteenth century, but they needed patrons to do so.

#7

Patronage was the basic means of social mobility in the eighteenth century, and Franklin’s rise was due to it. He could never have made it in the way he did in that hierarchical society if he hadn’t been helped by men of influence and supported at crucial points.

#8

Franklin’s rise was meteoric, and he did not think much beyond becoming his own independent printer in Philadelphia. He was still planning a trip to London to purchase the necessary equipment when he was married to Deborah Read in November 1724.

#9

When Franklin arrived in London, he was shocked to find that the governor had reneged on