Sam Lessin: preference

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…One other tip you have is if you're not sure the level of dress, just ask. Yeah, this is a big thing in general, which is I think people are afraid to ask in all sorts of situations down to which forks should I use? Or what's the expect? It is absolutely fine to ask. In fact, if anything, it shows a level of confidence and calm and humility to ask if you don't know. So I actually think this is a great example. There's absolutely nothing wrong with asking about dress, about etiquette, about expectations. Again, it goes back to this whole give to get. If you get someone on the phone and you ask them a hundred questions about etiquette, at a certain point you're like, that's not a pit game of ping pong. But it's totally fine to call and be like, "Hey, what's this going to look like?" And by the way, it's important because in New York versus San Francisco, there's different expectations. People do things differently and your job, you're not expected to know every nuance of every culture you might enter. So maybe as a final question in dress, do you have any just, I don't know, tips for dressing well? I know this is a big question that our professionals spend time teaching and charging for.…

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