These recent posts have explored human well-being using Ben Franklin’s happy, healthy, wise, and wealthy method and applying a five-point scale to measure each of those ambitions. For example, using those measures of worth, an ideal would be reached by a person attaining the highest level for those 4 qualities, with each having a value of 5. That would add up to a well-being score of 20/20.

#1 Happy +5 would be – Blissfully content / Establishing a higher working social system / Gathering, organizing, and publishing complex material so that others can understand and use it. / Farsighted attention and developing to the maximum the social wisdom of the entire society. / Contented at creating a working society that hopes for results in life with justice for its members / Utilizing all available resources to maximize humanity’s survival and population vigor.

#2 Healthy +5 would be – Having a blood pressure near an ideal blood pressure of 105/70 with a pulse pressure of 35.

#3 Wisdom +5 would be – A SAGE person’s expressions of ego expansion are taking control of his environment by using the methods of a PROGENITOR, giving skills to evolve worth by MEDITATING, teachable paths to higher realities PROPHESYING, to create the conditions for human growth, GOLDEN-RULING Doing to others as they should do, NO-EXAMPLING to generate universal well-being.

#4 Wealthy +5 would be – Earning a FICO score of 820 or better, as a proxy for being careful with one’s public financial obligations and having honest relationships with other people.

We can not know Ben Franklin‘s happiness, but he had many friends who liked and trusted him. His health and blood pressure must have been good because he lived to be 84 when his birth cohort’s average life expectancy in America was 33. It would appear that he had wisdom because he helped create the Declaration of Independence and American democracy. He lived well and within his means, and he currently has his picture on the United States $100 bill. He is rated at 20/20 as an example of an exquisitely well lived life.