Lessons from Benjamin Franklin

Developing system(s) of self-improvement and leadership

"He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."

The Benjamin Franklin Effect, as this incredibly counter-intuitive strategy came to be known, may reject the traditional, common-sensical idea that being liked is the strategy one must employ in order for others to lend us a hand, and not …