第1331期：如果能回到20岁，你会选择怎样度过？
中年读者们，有没有想过回到20岁，重新来过？
年轻读者们，如果你仍拥有20岁的黄金岁月，请千万珍惜，莫等闲，别蹉跎。
今天我们来聊聊20岁的人生应该怎么度过。
曾经有一个年轻人，跟我们大多数人一样浑浑噩噩，觉得青春无尽，可以任意挥霍。他20岁的某一天，忽然经历了醍醐灌顶的时刻。他回顾了自己每天的生活，觉得自己简直是在慢性自杀，平白无故地浪费美好而短暂的生命。
他觉得自己好差劲—— “He fell short of his ideal in more than a dozen areas of his life, he concluded. He ate and drank too much. He talked too much, especially about himself. He spent more money than he should. He didn’t finish all his goals. ”
他决定改变。
他给自己列出了13条人生美德，决定立即开始用这13条标准严格要求自己，努力，上进。
具体内容如下：
1. Temperance 节制. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. Silence 沉默. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. Order 有序. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4 Resolution 决心. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. Frugality 节俭. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. Industry 勤奋. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. Sincerity 真诚. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. Justice 公正. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. Moderation 适度. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. Cleanliness 整洁. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11. Tranquillity 平静. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. Chastity 贞节. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.
13. Humility 谦卑. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
为了督促自己严格按照这些要求和标准生活，他给自己设计了一个表格。
每一列是上述的一个美德，周一到周日七天，行列交叉，根据自己每一天的实际表现，在对应的单元格中做标记。
如果某天哪一条没做到，就打一个星号。目标是一周结束时星号越少越好。
这一年是公元1726年，这个20岁的年轻人叫 Benjamin Franklin.
这13条美德就是著名的 Franklin’s 13 Virtues.
富兰克林经常被美国人称为 The first American. 在美国人心目中接近于完人。
他留下了一本书，The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. 是佛老心目中最值得读的人类历史上的好书之一，排名前十都不过分。
不论你是否还年轻，都推荐你读一遍这本书。
