Create a group of people interested in a particular topic
Summary
- Create a group of people who are interested in a particular topic - they will help improve everyone
Details
- Benjamin Franklin in 1727 created a group known as the Junto whose purpose was intellectual mutual improvement.
- It later on helped inspire institutions like lending libraries, fire departments and other initiatives
Reflections
- What groups could i create? Music? mentorship plan?
References
Quotes
So at twenty-one he recruited eleven of the most intellectually interesting people in Philadelphia to form a mutual improvement club, which he named “the Junto.” The club’s members, who met each Friday night, would encourage each other’s various intellectual pursuits. Every member was expected to bring at least one interesting topic of conversation—on morals, politics, or science—to each meeting. The topics, which were generally phrased as questions, were to be discussed by the group “in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute or desire of victory.” In order to keep the discussions open and collaborative, the Junto’s rules strictly forbade anyone from contradicting another member or expressing an opinion too strongly. And once every three months each member of the Junto had to compose an essay—on any topic whatsoever—and read it to the rest of the group, which would then discuss it.
This technique can be used in nearly any area: put together a group of people all interested in the same thing—or join an existing group—and use the group’s camaraderie and shared goals as extra motivation in reaching your own goals