There are three primary ways to ask for help.

1. Here’s a problem. What should we do?
2. Here’s a problem. Here’s what I think we should do. What do you think?
3. Here’s a problem. Here’s what I recommend we do. Please let me know if you disagree.

If you want to be trusted and viewed as someone who can think and solve problems on your own, the vast majority of your requests need to look a lot more like number 3 than number 1.

-Brandon