[nsilvestri]

I needed to read this. Just today I realized today that my ego was distracting me from learning and being effective at my job. I am a new dev, <1 yr experience, and I've often found myself not reaching out for help when I need it. For no good reason, of course, but for fear of outing myself as not knowing something I perceive others might view as basic.

I need to teach myself to take the ego hit and that in the long term it'll pay off more than independently struggling on a problem.

[duderific]

I'm pretty senior (over 10 years), and I see this a lot with my younger colleagues. They will struggle for hours and hours before reaching out for help, which is obviously counterproductive.

I try to counter this by reaching out myself when I need help, which is pretty regularly. I'm hoping my younger colleagues will see that even the old fart needs help sometimes and isn't afraid to admit that he doesn't know something.