Heidi Grant : How to ask for help — and get a "yes"

Heidi Grant  (transcript)
How to ask for help — and get a "yes"
Summary
I was taught not to ask for help from my mother when l was a kid, thus I thought that l shouldn’t ask something and I have to do all by myself. However, l understood why my mother told me that this time.
It’s likely to feel incentives or payments and it leads to creating distant relationships.

The speaker also tells us the three important things when we ask for help.
It’s to avoid disclaimers, apologies, and bribes,1) to ask very very specific about the help you want and why, 2) and not to use emails and texts. 3)

It’s not easy to ask for help because it makes us feel vulnerable. We want to be strong, but after this, our world needs cooperation to our successes.
And then following up after asking is more important. We can ask for help and we have to help each other and one another and the world has to say and get a “yes”. We must hope such world.

Words in this story
transaction /noun/ interaction between two parties, negotiation, settlement, business deal.
bribe /noun/ a sum of money or other inducement offered or given in this way.
unsolicited /adj/ not asked for; given or done voluntarily.