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Lately, as I have adult coworkers (vs. teen/college jobs where I was mostly on a level with my peers), I’ve started realizing what people I know must have lived through, what sorts of stories they could probably tell. It’s not “useful” per se, but it seems fascinating. I just learned that Johnny Depp was in an undercover cop in highschool tv series in the 80s. Who knew? (And I work with people who grew up under segregation, things of greater weight.)

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My advice for what you want would be to check out self-publishing companies like lulu.com and look at elance.com for illustrators. Twitter is great for what you want too, especially if you can get people to retweet.

@Patrick – Even better! Thanks for adding that and it’s comforting to actually know that’s the case. What you say makes perfect sense.

@ Ruth – Thanks to you for dropping by and also Vered for the recommendation. That’s a great example of being unsure of asking for help and the positive outcome when you do.s
I’m not sure if you’ve heard the parable of the old Stag and the young stag, but I’m gonna share the very short compact version anyway.

Old stag on hill looking at young stag thinking “Wow look at that young stag, with all the potential he has. If only I could chat with him and tell him about life and share some of my experience, but he won’t want to talk with an old fart like me (old fart is a technical stag term btw).

The young stag looks at the old stag and thinks “Look at that old stag, I bet he’s a wise old soul and could tell me a few stories about stagging and such, but he’d not want to be bothered by somebody like me”

Life is a bit like that without the antlers and clove hoofs.

It’s funny how hard asking for help can be when you think of how often people are willing to help. I started a new job about a month ago and have had to learn a LOT. I was worried that my coworkers, especially the guy who had the job a few years ago, would think less of me for asking for their help. But it turns out that he has all these little systems which he’s delighted to teach me because it makes him feel like the job will be done right. And I like his systems because he had the job for about 5 years and is tremendously efficient. I think our rapport is better because of it all.

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I’m a neuroscientist and one of the fundamental aspects of the way the human brain functions is that empathy is a key part of why we are so evolutionarily successful.

There is a key survival advantage to helping others even if the benefit to yourself isn’t immediately obvious. The end result is that the species as a whole survives even if individuals might not benefit from helping their fellow cave man escape from that saber tooth tiger.

The biochemistry behind why this happens might still be a mystery, but there is no doubt that humans are social animals and everyone wins if we help each other.

Patrick
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I have your book and will write a review for it on amazon. I will be glad to give you 5 well deserved stars! I will also share your site with friends. Why should I have all the fun right?

One of my goals is to write and publish a series of science curriculum books for elementary. I have never published anything and you have so any pointers on the steps to getting that done would be appreciated. I will also need to find an illustrator for the different activities in the books.

Good luck with your goals Tim. I know you will achieve them!

I like the idea. I’ve never associated “asking for help” with goals. I’ll have to consider this.

I can probably count on my hand the number of times that I’ve asked for help – and none of them have been for anything life significant.

Thank you,
Juliet