Back when I was a young, blur student, I picked up my first investment book and tried to implement the strategies in it. But I got really frustrated because it wasn’t working out. So I sent a quick email to the author. I can’t remember what I wrote, but it was something along the lines of “I can’t get your strategy to work. Which stocks should I pick?” Guess what the reply was? Nothing. That’s right – predictably, the author completely ignored my email. How many times have we emailed someone we wanted advice from, and failed to get a reply? Yet, why do some people seem to be able to effortlessly connect with others, getting valuable advice and leapfrogging everyone else? Learning from my initial naive email, I learnt that there’s actually an art to asking for advice. It’s relatively simple to do, but not many people ... ...