An elegant compliment
- When it comes to asking for advice, we are asking for a favor as well as making a compliment.
- We are telling the other person that they are smart, that they are brilliant, that we respect them, and that their opinion is important .
- It is a gift to your own ego - a gift that no one will stop receiving. People, in general, like to be heard and taken into account.
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