When someone helps you out, it can really mean a lot. A load has been taken off you, both physically and mentally. We like to help each other out,  and yet when it's our turn to ask for help it's not necessarily a comfortable experience.  Here's some tips on how to do it well.

From the outside, the intense, hyper-commercial culture inside financial firms seems both fascinating and appalling, leading to works like The Wolf of Wall Street. What's it like from the inside, especially if you'd already tried to step away from it, to try to find a new kind of balance? In...