Chad Silverstein explains why asking for help matters. Navy SEALs teams require it because isolation endangers everyone. When you struggle, you either withdraw or lean on others. The difference is knowing when to reach out.
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And people do one of two things. They either go dark, which means they kind of close themselves off in an office environment. I saw this all the time. You'd always see someone's door shut. Never saw it shut before, but now all of a sudden I see it shut every day. So I know something's going on. You got to tune into that. And the other way is to lean on someone and ask for help. And so they asked the Navy SEALs this because the Navy SEALs, they don't want you on the SEAL team if you're going to go dark because that means that someone's going to die. They want teammates that are going to lean onto each other and ask for help and not be too proud and not be too much of a big shot to not ask for help. You got to know when to ask for help. And if you're going through something hard, nobody can do it alone.