“Asking for help” is not about relinquishing our capacity to think for ourselves.
In fact, many communication skills and behaviours are sprouting, flourishing and nourishing you when you do ask for help.
We are often stuck into this step and the act of getting support / “asking for help” excruciatingly feels like we have to “beg” for our right to exist.
Some of us even feel shame.
What will people think if I turn up as someone different from my public persona who once was invincible, a fixer, a know-it-all, a super(wo)man?
Maybe it’s not the crux of the issue.
Because when we think about it, help is submerged and in becoming into… </3>
– Collaboration
– Brainstorming
– Curiosity and appreciation of cultural differences
– The exposure to different mental models, approaches, styles of colleagues, partners, strangers
– Your networks, close, distant, diverse, strange, eclectic
– The invitation to share a lived experience
– A simple chat where learning coalesces
And this is then that you realise you don’t even have to “ask” for anything. You exchange, you meet, you dialogue, you experiment, you live, you commune.
You matter.
What else is “helpful” for you?
Article Photo: an abstract painting of oranges and browns on a black background
by Pawel Czerwinski (@pawel_czerwinski) on Unsplash
