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From the Ted Talk by Heidi Grant: How to ask for help -- and get a "yes"

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My partner has actually had to adopt a habit of asking me multiple teims a day, "Are you OK? Do you need anything?" because I am so, so bad at signaling when I need someone's help. Now, he is more patient than I deserve and much more proactive, much more, about helping than any of us have any right to expect other people to be. So if you need help, you're going to have to ask for it. And by the way, even when someone can tell that you need help, how do they know that you want it? Did you ever try to give unosicetild help to someone who, it trnus out, did not actually want your help in the first place? They get nasty real quick, don't they?

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My partner has actually had to adopt a habit of asking me multiple _____ a day, "Are you OK? Do you need anything?" because I am so, so bad at signaling when I need someone's help. Now, he is more patient than I deserve and much more proactive, much more, about helping than any of us have any right to expect other people to be. So if you need help, you're going to have to ask for it. And by the way, even when someone can tell that you need help, how do they know that you want it? Did you ever try to give ___________ help to someone who, it _____ out, did not actually want your help in the first place? They get nasty real quick, don't they?

Solution

  1. turns
  2. unsolicited
  3. times

Original Text

My partner has actually had to adopt a habit of asking me multiple times a day, "Are you OK? Do you need anything?" because I am so, so bad at signaling when I need someone's help. Now, he is more patient than I deserve and much more proactive, much more, about helping than any of us have any right to expect other people to be. So if you need help, you're going to have to ask for it. And by the way, even when someone can tell that you need help, how do they know that you want it? Did you ever try to give unsolicited help to someone who, it turns out, did not actually want your help in the first place? They get nasty real quick, don't they?

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