Interesting. That's not much different than my typical day, although he started and finished about 1.5 hours earlier than I do. The key bits, though, are probably the notes about using his time for introspection and reflection. I tend to use those corresponding time periods of my day for reading email/rss or watching TV/movies - decidedly less wisdom-building activities.
Isn't this basically the same as most corporate wage slaves - particularly ones with kids?
The major difference seems to be that there was no TV in Ben Franklin's day. But other than substituting "TV" for "idle diversion", this could be the daily schedule of any of about 100 million Americans...
Remember too that Franklin lived about 100 years before Daylight Savings Time, not to mention however long before household electricity was common. Getting to sleep at 10 was probably easier when it was too dark to do anything.
