How To Say No To People Who Want To Pick Your Brain

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Dan Lok

Careers, Management, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Imagine spending $200 on a pair of shoes that you lose a couple of days later. Now imagine getting a free pair of shoes and misplacing them. Which scenario would bother you more?

People don’t put as much value on what they get for free. Everyday, people email or DM me, hoping for free advice. When I just started as a consultant, people wanted to go out for lunch so they could pick my brain for a couple hours and waste my time. Have you ever had this experience?

You give people your best advice like your knowledge is a free buffett, and then they don’t take action. In a sense, they’ve thrown your free advice away. Why? Because there’s no skin in the game. When they’re not paying, they’re not paying attention. That’s the issue. So how can you say No to people who want to pick your brain for free advice?

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Dan Lockett.
0:07.0	Welcome.
0:09.0	Dan has been educating and inspiring individuals, entrepreneurs and leaders for decades.
0:18.0	He's helped millions of people to move past the mental barriers that were holding them back
0:24.6	from stepping into their power to become a better version of themselves and live a kick-ass life.
0:32.6	I know this firsthand as I'm Jenny, Dan's wife. And here's your host, Dan Locke. How to say no to people
0:43.9	who want to pick your brain. How many hours have you wasted helping someone for free only to see
0:49.8	them not take action on what you shared with them? Today, Dan shares a story about how he learned this lesson the hard way.
0:58.0	Now here's your host, Dan Locke.
1:01.0	Now stop.
1:03.0	Do you know how many people every single day, contact me, email me, private message,
1:09.0	DM me, and they say they wanna pick my brain for free.
1:12.6	I learned this the hard way, okay?
1:14.8	When I was getting started, when I was doing consulting,
1:18.7	at first I wanted to help everybody.
1:20.7	And I would let everybody just kind of like a free buffet.
1:24.4	They can pick my brain any time, we can go to lunch,
1:27.6	and I know waste hours and hours and hours of my time.
1:31.1	Have you ever had this experience, right?
1:33.5	Where you wanna help people, right?
1:36.5	And then you go to lunch and you give them
1:38.0	your best advice, you pour your heart out.
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