Eric Franklin’s Peanut Butter Principles is an eminently readable book that contains terrific nuggets of wisdom for parents and children alike.
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A passing glance through the Table of Content’s of Eric Franklin’s Peanut Butter Principles was enough to convince me that it would be well worth a read. And I’m happy to report that my full reading confirmed this. We are putting this book on our recommended list, both for parents seeking to impart wisdom to their kids and to grown-ups that are seeking wisdom.
As Franklin told me during our interview, what the book is really about is “character”:
This whole book really is about character. My father instilled these principles in me. Do what you say you’re going to do. Be true to your word. I have seen him live and continue to live these principles. He is very family-oriented and very staunch about treating people the way you want to be treated and living up to your word.
It begins with the familiar principle that “Life it not fair. Get over it,” and from there includes nuggets of wisdom such as “Dosomethingbecauseitmatters,notbecauseitwillgetyounoticed,” “There is a difference between a decision and a commitment,” and “Everything happens for a reason, but sometimes, the reason is you’re stupid and you make bad choices.”
Franklin’s 47 principles cover how to build self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-awareness, the importance of setting goals to make our wishes come true, fundamental life wisdom, relationships, and making good choices.
But Peanut Butter Principles is no mere list of life rules. What separates this book is the accessible writing, the life stories that drive each principle home, and the fact that each is a principle, and not a rule:
The common denominator [for successful people] was not necessarily their economic background but an environment where they taught ‘principles’ rather than ‘rules’ . . . Here is a principle to life. Remember that principle. Apply it to your life. And those are the principles you find in this book. Half are principles I was raised under. The other half I came up with or heard and applied them to my life, and I found they really benefited me. I wanted a way to put it down on paper, in a way that it would benefit my kids.
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