Asking for help personally is internally viewed as a personal failure being brought out into the light and delivered to a potential aide thereby admitting that I have a flaw, that I am not good enough, not able to do something that someone else can do. I must also say that my career and life is service oriented and I don't feel that the things I do for people are things they can't do for themselves but are things they haven't been taught to do. Go figure.
I view asking for help as a way of getting support from others for something I do not have the full resources or the capability of doing myself. In the terms of physical help, it may be necessary and the only way something can get accomplished. For example, I can try to put a couch on the back of a truck by myself but that may take awhile but if I ask for help I could get it done pretty quickly. By asking for help, I gained the ability to move the couch quickly and more efficiently. Asking for help for something I don't know or understand will accomplish a lot more than staying ignorant. Like the old saying goes, "There are no stupid questions, only stupid people who refuse to ask them." So to view help as a humiliating or embarrassing action will only end up crippling and hindering your advancement in whatever you are trying to achieve.
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Asking for help personally is internally viewed as a personal failure being brought out into the light and delivered to a potential aide thereby admitting that I have a flaw, that I am not good enough, not able to do something that someone else can do.
I must also say that my career and life is service oriented and I don't feel that the things I do for people are things they can't do for themselves but are things they haven't been taught to do. Go figure.
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I view asking for help as a way of getting support from others for something I do not have the full resources or the capability of doing myself. In the terms of physical help, it may be necessary and the only way something can get accomplished. For example, I can try to put a couch on the back of a truck by myself but that may take awhile but if I ask for help I could get it done pretty quickly. By asking for help, I gained the ability to move the couch quickly and more efficiently. Asking for help for something I don't know or understand will accomplish a lot more than staying ignorant. Like the old saying goes, "There are no stupid questions, only stupid people who refuse to ask them."
So to view help as a humiliating or embarrassing action will only end up crippling and hindering your advancement in whatever you are trying to achieve.
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