Why Men Don't Ask For Directions

There's a video floating around 'You Tube' or
somewhere entitled "Why Men Don't Ask For
Directions?".

In it, what looks like a student is approaching a
young lady at a bus stop and starting to ask her for
directions. Before he gets five words out the
woman is spraying enough mace in his face to
drive him to the ground in agony. Then while
he's trying to recover she whips out a Taser and
proceeds to shock him silly. Funny stuff.

The joke about men not asking for directions has
been a comedian's staple for years. The joke has
been told hundreds of ways, and it still gets laughs.
That's because there's much truth to it.

It's not just directions guys won't ask for though.
We don't like to ask for help, period. That's totally
stupid though. Successful people are smart enough
to glean from the experiences of those who have
gone before them.

In his book 'Living A Dream' Dick Vitale talks about
how he advised Matt Dougherty who had been let
go by North Carolina to call Bobby Knight to find
out how he had dealt with being let go by Indiana.

Dickie V. could give that kind of advice because he
himself had asked for help more than a few times,
and because he knew for a fact Coach Knight had
sought advice from Florida's athletic director
Jeremy Foley on what it would take for a
university to hire him. If a Hall of Famer is big
enough to ask for help, don't you think you could
too?

When I used to play in the rock band we needed to
get from an early afternoon gig in Owensboro, KY to
an evening show in Central City, Ky - hometown of
the Everly Brothers. We used a map till we found
the bridge was washed out and we had to stop and
ask for directions. Step 1, O.K. We were being
smart.

Before the afternoon was out though we'd stopped
for directions three times and apparently gotten
three wild guesses. We ended up seeing a lot of the
countryside and were over an hour late for our job.

So remember it's not just important to ask for help,
you have to know the right people to ask. If you
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Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

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