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Before Breakfast

You don't get what you don't ask for

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

No one can read your mind

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0:00.0

be unimaginable. Season 2 of the Unimaginable hones in on individuals who have led unimaginable

0:07.6

lives by following their instinct from guests like Tyco White TT. Stick to your vision of what

0:14.3

you're trying to do. It's just more pure. The failure is more pure and the success is more pure.

0:18.7

This season delivers behind-the-scenes conversations about the many roads to success. Listen to the

0:24.4

unimaginable on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:34.0

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio.

0:39.5

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

0:47.1

Today's tip is to ask for what you want. Because you often won't get what you don't

0:54.2

ask for. I mean, you might, but the odds are lower than if you say what is on your mind.

1:04.4

Today's tip comes from a discussion on the Patreon page for my other podcast, Best of Both Worlds.

1:10.8

My co-host Sarah and I asked people about the best career advice they've gotten.

1:16.9

A listener mentioned realizing that she likely wouldn't get what she didn't ask for.

1:22.5

So if she truly wanted something, she needed to ask. I think this is great advice.

1:31.6

So often we assume that people know what we want, or that they should know what we want.

1:38.6

Whether it's your boss knowing that you want to be staffed on a particular project,

1:43.1

or your spouse knowing that you want flowers for your anniversary. People often believe their hopes

1:49.2

are apparent to everyone around them. What's funny is that this fallacy becomes

1:55.9

immediately apparent when you reverse the situation. Do you know exactly what your spouse wants,

2:04.1

what your boss wants, has every gift you've given, or every idea you've offered up,

2:10.6

been the equivalent of a home run? No. How interesting. We all live in our own little worlds.

2:21.1

And consequently, what is obvious to us isn't to everyone else. No matter how much we believe,

2:28.7

it should be. People often do not know what you want. They don't know, even if they really love

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