of social skills, etc.). Assumptions Assumptions about good work ethic, drawn out in the philosophical writings of Goldman, are: The path to what you want is to take action. The success of action plans depend upon how congruent one's worldview (Weltanschauung) is with the society's. Many problems faced are only a temporary breakdown of self management. Setting time limits for achieving goals helps to overcome the edge of discomforts that time can have on subjective needs. A positive problem-solving or goal attainment experience improves one's ability to cope with the next difficulty. Hardships in life is a normality, they become a problem when they are the same over and over. A person is what s/he does, and feelings flow from behavior. Feelings can be viewed as beliefs about one's wants. How hard you work will determine how far you go. Capitalist view The Puritans who settled in New England around the 17th and 18th centuries believed that working hard at one's call was a sign that one would be saved. They were followed by Calvinists who believed in predestination and had faith that they were chosen or had the call from God to fulfill their duty in the world. To both of them, accumulation of wealth was an indicator of working to their fullest capacity as a response to the call and assurance for earning salvation. These ideologies are the foundations of the Protestant work ethic. Max Weber quotes the ethical writings of Benjamin Franklin: Remember, that time is money. He that can earn ten shillings a day by his labor, and goes abroad, or sits idle, one half of that day, though he spends but sixpence during his diversion or idleness, ought not to reckon that the only expense; he has really spent, or rather thrown away, five shillings besides. Remember, that money is the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. Weber notes that this is not a philosophy