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I've never had a problem asking for five minutes to meet and pick someone's brain.
Dorie Clark, adjunct professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the author of "Entrepreneurial You," said asking to pick someone's brain has become overused to the point of thoughtlessness.
Wow, imagine paying $3.5 million to pick someone's brain over lunch?
In essence, that is what you're doing when you ask to pick someone's brain.
You ask for permission to "pick someone's brain," which in most circumstances would get you arrested as a psychopath.
Much preferred to sending random LinkedIn messages asking to "pick someone's brain". Mentors aren't a surefire way to get ahead in your career once you're in a job, but can be helpful when you're evaluating an offer or have questions on a new industry.
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The best thing you can do if you know there's someone in your class who is more knowledgeable than you is to suggest a study date so you can pick that person's brain.
If you needed to pick a brain surgeon, you would not pick someone who seemed reluctant to perform the operation.
A Sept. 16 letter, about whether John Kerry should criticize President Bush's rush to war in Iraq, says, "If you needed to pick a brain surgeon, you would not pick someone who seemed reluctant to perform the operation".
He picked Beilein's brain.
I picked everybody's brain.
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