If You Don’t Know … Are You Willing to Ask for Help?

Do you remember being a kid and wanting to grow up and know everything about everything the way so many adults appeared to do?

Did you think or grow up to believe that once you crossed some magic threshold of age, all those mysteries about how to live, how to get a job, how to drive a car, or operate a phone would be a part of your life — without your having to do anything about it?

Did you think that by knowing everything about everything — long before the IoT came along — that you’d be strong, powerful, and all-knowing?

Are you still stuck in that idea?

I know many are, because I hear so much reluctance in adults/professionals about asking for help in any way, even with things clearly outside their specialty. It can feel embarrassing — even shameful — to “have” to ask for help, even in areas that take years of studying to know the tiniest bit about it. I have certainly felt that way!

One place we get stuck is in our business/career lives. And I think it happens as we gain some success, as we make decisions that do work out, that we gain clients and customers who think we’re wonderful … until something changes and we realize we don’t know everything after all.