If you have something you need to know, asking people can do a great deal to relieve the work on you to find it out yourself. You never know when someone is going to just happen to know the answer that you are looking for but if they don’t asking them makes them want to answer. Once you’ve asked, you’ve made them aware of something that they don’t know and may begin to wonder about. They may even do a little research to find the answer, just to satasfy their own curiosity. But then they’ll probably want to have the satasfaction of being able to bring you the answer you asked for.

The more people you ask, there more you get an idea of their unique abilities. Everyone has unique approaches to a problem, some of them will solve problems your methods wouldn’t have been able to, and some of them you will benefit from learning.