When I find out who first told people to “take a millionaire to lunch and pick their brain,” I’m going to kill them. Okay maybe that’s an overreaction. But asking someone to “pick their brain” is a lousy strategy for becoming successful. And my experience has been that the only people who employ that strategy are mostly lazy, not willing to do the work required to become successful. I agreed to this five times, and each time I ended up picking up the check and the person asking never really followed through on my advice.
