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The Magic Words To Get What You Want & Why You Get Headaches

Something You Should Know

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Asking Advice Can Make You Look Smarter, Right?

I think when we're stuck on a tough problem, and this happens to me a lot, you're trying to figure out the answer, you need help. And we often don't do it, right? For a few reasons. One is worried that the person will be busy. But most detrimental, we're worried to make us look bad. If we ask for advice, it'll make us look like we don't know what we're doing. People are egocentric; they all think our advice is great. When someone asks us for our advice, we go, wow, this person was smart enough to ask me for my advice. They must be pretty smart, smart too."

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