We Underestimate Others’ Willingness to Help

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[00:00:00]You're probably wrong about how much somebody else wants to help. Some recent Stanford research found out that we underestimate this by about 50%. Now, I'm not an expert on this, but maybe that's one of the reasons why we have this loneliness epidemic that we keep hearing about. I have experience with not asking for help rough patches of my life when I should have asked for help because I really needed it. If it weren't for people who really cared about me and told me to get the help I needed, I probably wouldn't have ever asked. So, this is my ask for you. I want you to ask for things that you need. This behind me is an experiment I'm calling need-based networking. All you have to do is put your name in, your LinkedIn, what you need help with, and then you will get a spreadsheet of other people that you can help. Let's keep this experiment going and see how many people we can