


Today educators, religion, and science, all teach that with just a pen and paper, you can daily discover solutions, hidden insight, a world of fortune.
- Self reflection | Ben Franklin's 1 week challenge.
While countries were quick to stop the popular wearing of animal furs; we were very slow to realize the rising need to teach cardio, healthy food, and journaling to study oneself caused by industrial revolution’s human lifespan increase and increase of world complexities.
Why weren't those three items recognized sooner? Seems that fell into a crack between two worldviews: While scholars and non-believers wouldn't think to look in scripture, those of religion just kind of trusted scripture to be complete; resulting in course that lost opportunity.
Summary:
Post Industrial Revolution swung from very religious, outdoors with nature and
working side by side with animals.
to working indoors (less nature &
animals), big edu, small religion, together with impacts of much less daily
morning exercise, unhealthy foods and medication;
all that change combined with the influence of rising neighboring branches of religion – of large rising middle classes (mostly due to humanities success vs fighting).
4,500 Years
What is surprising – since 4,500 years, writing, drawing and meditation / prayer existed, yet there are very few if any records of a personal habit tracker embedded into civilizations culture, such as Franklin's scorecard idea.
What might the world look like today, if for the past 2000 years, personal habit tracker score cards were interwoven in civilization?
7 day scorecard:
Option: Made of new scorecard sheets each week of clay tablets, wax tablets, papyrus, bamboo slips, bark wood, sturdy leaves, thin rock… a picture book Journal.
Regardless of a journal's survival, it would have had a huge impact on the individual of that society doing the self- improvement journaling. The 1 week scorecard concept would have likely made it into ancient archives, Chronicles, Monastic archives, holy writ text, and ancient tombs.
Estimate:
If that habit tracker had been added within
ancient text / interwoven into culture starting 2,000 years ago, our world would
be a different place.
Collectively we would have broken more bad habits quicker, been able to adapt to and understand new technology with less cultural friction, difficulty, and war.
We could recognize impacts quicker, like at the time of the industrial revolution, how very limited info on exercise, health food, and self journaling existed in ancient & sacred text – would have a huge impact on well being, also avoiding medical hardships suffered from today.
Its huge impacts would have avoided WWI and WWII. (even 300 yrs ago, having implemented the Franklin score card concept swapping virtues with items relating to self improvement) in classrooms may have avoided WW 1 & 2 (Possibly very little fossil fuel would be in use today. Much more human power automation would exist. Different dwellings to reside in would have evolved, air travel without motors and more.
Few dependencies would exist, medication, drugs, drinking, smoking, habit forming addictions. Healthier, fewer and better educational penitentiaries, courts less burdened, governments more agile & unified.
The closest historic record that does exist of a personal habit tracker score
card are:
Franklin's
scorecard | Examen| Stoic
| Monastic | Benedictine
invite >> Pic items, Daily note exp, Wk review,
If any one country could have discovered a way to successfully integrate a 1 week scorecard concept within school, classroom, religious study, work, and home environments that actually took root, it would have had a huge impact on that one country's people - providing an example to other countries.
A personal performance tracker concept will likely continue developing similar to how the development of personal home computer vs network / cloud server. Individuals, families and small groups interacting at home vs interacting / competing online together socially. Organizations, city, state, and counties might also find ways to promote a game-like habit tracker concept as both closed and open source. "It only takes one country, one classroom, one generation."
– Estimate: society should get healthier in time, and discover such insight as long as the planet holds up.
Do you think if those three items had been better recognized during the turn of the century (simply because they weren't available or practical and times when ancient texts were written) the world would be a different place?
Eg
In 2026 I’m launching visor glasses to fund study of and launch of a game-like habit tracker link² for offline individuals and or complete with friends as an activity..
https://github.com/qp5/kaleidoscope.html
Living abstinence
Here is one other small connection between the industrial age and era of holy writ, that relates to sustainable living and leaders that live a life of abstinence, as well as those living celibacy.
The concept of gaining strength through abstinence shows up across cultures — monks, warriors, athletes. The ancient Greek term is Enkrateia (self-mastery). Here is insight why during the discovery and colonization of the Americas, the inclusion of celibacy appears void.

