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How To Ask For Help
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You frequently have to ask people for things. You will also have more and more people asking you to do favors for them. Here is what I have learned: You can maximize your odds of getting what you want by minimizing the work the other person has to do to help you.

Be appropriately selfish. It is ok to ask for things. It is ok to ask for things from someone who can help you more than you can help them right now. Just stay within reason, and do not ask people to do things that seriously puts their reputation on the line.

Always have a one sentence summary. You might think your three paragraph message is short, and it might be if the person you are emailing happens to get no other email. More likely she has hundreds of messages in her inbox and your message feels anything but "short."


http://www.unschooled.org/2011/03/how-to-ask-for-things/
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