How to Get People Invested in You
Counter-intuitive, simple, and incredibly useful.
It’s not what you do for other people — It’s about what other people do for you
Forget the grandiose gestures, buying coffees, and stop clamoring for the approval of others. Throw out the rule book and engage in some counter-intuitive behavior from one of the most legendary figures in history, Mr. Benjamin Franklin.
Legend tells that Ben Franklin won over a fierce rival by asking a favor:
Having heard that he had in his library a certain very scarce and curious book, I wrote a note to him, expressing my desire of perusing that book, and requesting he would do me the favour of lending it to me for a few days. He sent it immediately, and I return’d it in about a week with another note, expressing strongly my sense of the favour. When we next met in the House, he spoke to me (which he had never done before), and with great civility; and he ever after manifested a readiness to serve me on all occasions, so that we became great friends, and our friendship continued to his death. — The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
