2. 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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4. Peripatetic Effect

When we ask another person for advice about something that interests us and we get them to be interested in it, it is possible that due to the effect of mirror neurons , which generate empathy and neural alignment between two people, both can find a solution to a real problem.

Through quest...

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Example Of Social & Personal Barriers

Closed doors.
People in high positions or unreachable.
Inaccessible uncomfortable people.
Adversaries or people who do not want us to do well.
People we would like to address, but we don't know how.
How can we break down

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5. Create Real Conversations

We waste too much time in innocuous and empty conversations, small talk to fill the time. But how much real conversations are needed! It is impressive what you can discover and achieve if you learn to master the art of conversation .

Nobody asks for advice on worthless thin...

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A Powerfull Phrase

"Can I ask you for advice?" It is a simple and short phrase; easy to say, remember and repeat. It is a phrase that can be used constantly without losing its validity and, above all, has behind it the power of science to open the doors that until ...

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3. Let The Other Shine

It can be personal advice, about work, about a project, or about an important decision. The key is to state the advice simply and clearly and then let the other speak, always respecting the 80/20 rule . When it comes to asking for advice, we are placing the conversation firmly on the other person...

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Importance Of Relationship

Every person is a world. Life at work, in business and even in the family is full of complex relationships, where each person has their own agenda, their own history and particular dimensions.

Success doesn't just depends on talent o...

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1. The Ben Franklin Effect

The Ben Franklin effect is a known psychological effect to change the perception that others have of us by allowing them to do us a favor.

It is, at first glance, counterintuitive. We may think that, to please, we must "do" favors, but it turns out that when others do us favors, it is prove...

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