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Smart People Ask for (My) Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence

peer-reviewed experiments Brooks, A. W., Gino, F., & Schweitzer, M. E. (2015). Management Science, 61(6), 1421-1435.

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“Seeking advice can increase how competent the asker appears to the person asked”

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Behavior

How Being Low Maintenance Trains People to Overlook You

Consistently presenting as low maintenance conditions the people around you to stop checking, offering, or accommodating — not out of neglect, but because you have reliably signaled that nothing is needed.