'I want your help with this or that' is a better case scenario. I find it challenging when the conversation is just a laydown of a problem / situation and I am expected to react!
'I want your help with this or that' is a better case scenario. I find it challenging when the conversation is just a laydown of a problem / situation and I am expected to react!
The assumption here is that the advice seeker knows what they want. If we remove that filter, the nature of conversations where someone's asking you for advice expands. Someone may just use the opportunity of the conversation to figure out how to articulate the problem, someone may just be thinking out loud, etc.
Let me throw two other thoughts in the mix.
1) Good advice isn't free. But it isn't just not free in the usual sense of you gotta pay with money or some resource. It's not free in the sense that you gotta pay with clarity of thought to receive good advice.
2) I think the quality of advice tracks closely with the quality of question asked or problem framed. Is it possible to get good advice to a poorly stated ask? I doubt but i would like to think about it some more.
'I want your help with this or that' is a better case scenario. I find it challenging when the conversation is just a laydown of a problem / situation and I am expected to react!
The assumption here is that the advice seeker knows what they want. If we remove that filter, the nature of conversations where someone's asking you for advice expands. Someone may just use the opportunity of the conversation to figure out how to articulate the problem, someone may just be thinking out loud, etc.
Let me throw two other thoughts in the mix.
1) Good advice isn't free. But it isn't just not free in the usual sense of you gotta pay with money or some resource. It's not free in the sense that you gotta pay with clarity of thought to receive good advice.
2) I think the quality of advice tracks closely with the quality of question asked or problem framed. Is it possible to get good advice to a poorly stated ask? I doubt but i would like to think about it some more.