00:00We often carry this notion that we should avoid being a burden.
00:03We don't really like asking for help or for a favour.
00:05And there's this unwritten rule that if you're asking or bending the rules, you're being an inconvenience.
00:10Sheryl Sandberg mentions in an interview that she was giving a talk to Facebook to about 100 employees.
00:15And at the end of the talk, she had a Q&A section.
00:18And as she was answering the questions, she said she'll take two more.
00:21After the second question, all the women in the room put their hands down.
00:24But she continued taking questions.
00:26And this time it was only from the men in the room because everyone who had kept their hands up were the men.
00:31We want to drop the assumption that asking is annoying and that bending the rules or not doing what someone said is wrong.
00:37If we ask for something and we get it, great, we're better off.
00:40And if not, we're no worse off than we were before.
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