Everybody needs help. Asking for help can feel difficult though. You might worry about coming off as needy, or as an imposition.

There’s a craft to finding help, and it’s worth mastering. Any improvement at it is worth being proud of. Your style is unique; everybody has a different comfort level with how public they get, as well as different strengths. 

When I wrote about ways to seek job opportunities, that was an example of this skill in action. 

If you want to do something meaningful and impactful, you’ll need to get other people involved, and that means both accepting help and giving help.

When I talk to entrepreneurs, there’s a portion of the conversation where they’re practically listing out their projects. Each project is a doorknob to discuss the problems they’re facing, and each one of those is a chance for them to ask me for help—or for me to offer it, through my expertise or my network. It seems to me like they’re constantly doing this; it’s just a part of their life and practice.

Nobody is self-made. The honest few are realistic about this: everybody needs help, at one point or another.