Your advice is often not needed.
Stop telling people what they should do. Instead, ask them, “What do you think you should do?”
People are smart. People are naturally intuitive. People can solve problems when given the time and space.
People can also develop learned helplessness. If you always provide the solution, this can easily happen.
So next time someone asks for your help, don’t oblige.
Instead, ask for their ideas. Probe to help them work out the best way forward.
Keep doing this and you might just notice them ask for help less and less over time.
