Metadata
- Author: Adam Grant
- Full Title:: A Better Way to Ask for Advice
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Career Tips,
- URL:: https://behavioralscientist.org/a-better-way-to-ask-for-advice-learn-from-the-best/
- Finished date:: 2023-10-27
Highlights
You might assume that students would be better off learning the basics from an expert (a tenure‑track or tenured professor) than a nonexpert (a lecturer with less specialized knowledge). But the data showed the opposite: students who took their initial class with an expert ended up with poorer grades in the next class. (View Highlight)
It turns out that if you’re taking a new road, the best experts are often the worst guides. There are at least two reasons why experts struggle to give good directions to beginners. One is the distance they’ve traveled (View Highlight)
Even if your chosen expert can walk you through their route, when you ask for directions on yours, you’ll run into a second challenge. You don’t share the same strengths and weaknesses—their hills and valleys aren’t the same as yours (View Highlight)