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I have this problem. Any advice on how to ask for advice?
Several ideas and techniques from the CFAR workshop are relevant:
The workshop included a practical session on comfort zone expansion (we went to a mall and did mildly uncomfortable things involving strangers) which I found helpful, mostly because it helped me internalize social pressure in the direction of comfort zone expansion. At the workshop this was abbreviated as CoZE and there was a half-serious idea floating around of awarding "CoZE points" to people whenever they expanded their comfort zones, which is the main technique I used the last time I tried asking for advice. (The other technique I used was a social commitment mechanism, but explaining how that fit in would make the story too long.)
Try explicitly admitting to them that you care more about getting the job done correctly than appearing to be competent while doing the job.