How did Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) achieve so much with so little? How could he form the country’s first hospital and first lending library, lead the formation of the 13 Colonies, and found the University of Pennsylvania?

He did it by creating the resources that he lacked. At 24, around 1830, with only a few books of his own, he formed a private lending library among five friends, and then expanded the concept to the general public of Philadelphia. He looked at his problem, recognized that others shared the problem, and went about creating a solution, which benefited eventually the whole … More

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