{"id":639,"date":"2024-04-16T10:14:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T09:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2024-04-16T10:14:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T09:14:59","slug":"asking-for-help-shows-strength-not-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/2024\/04\/16\/asking-for-help-shows-strength-not-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking for help shows strength, not weakness\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Dr Tom Brownlee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think we all suffer from putting tasks off. We might pick the low-hanging fruit and then procrastinate on the more complex tasks. That can wait until tomorrow…\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve come to realise that often I put off the tasks which I might feel I’m ill-equipped to complete. I might not know how to do a certain element or am worried my effort will be poor. I doubt I’m alone in this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve come to realise that when I feel like this, honesty is the best policy and I should ask for support. If it’s a new task it’s reasonable to assume we might not know exactly how to do it so support is a logical course of action. For a long time though I haven’t taken this approach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having spent a few weeks now being honest with people in asking for support has been really freeing. So, if your procrastination is caused by fear of how to approach a problem then ask someone more experienced. It seems super simple but for me, it’s made a huge impact on my output.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Dr Tom Brownlee Photo credit:\u202fAustin Kehmeier\u202fon\u202fUnsplash I think we all suffer from putting tasks off. We might pick the low-hanging fruit and then procrastinate on the more complex tasks. That can wait until tomorrow…\u00a0 I’ve come to realise that often I put off the tasks which I might feel I’m ill-equipped to complete. I … Continue reading “Asking for help shows strength, not weakness\u00a0“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[157,89,158,70],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-academia","tag-collaboration","tag-resilience","tag-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}