BTW, just to defend my man Ben Franklin:
He was not an old man learning new tricks. He was into diplomacy by the mid 1700’s, he was the peacemaker between the two main factions in the PA Assembly, and he was the Colonies’ representative to England for quite some time.
Interesting fact, if you learn R’ Yisrael Salanter, he has a sefer where he discusses how to improve yourself one middah at a time. That was taken from a psychology book who took it from Benjamin Franklin.