#### [[Meetings are best spent listening rather than talking]] --- - People with positions and titles spend more and more time flexing their ego and flaunting their status, filling meetings with noise and bluster rather than insight and true knowledge - Many of the most successful individuals, experts, the "do-ers" will sit in silence, reserved, taking notes, and saving their words - Silent listening leads to understanding of the players on the board, the situations, the technologies, the customers, [[You learn more by listening than talking]] - People who sit in silence also inspire curiosity in others, and appear mysterious as well as knowledgeable because they follow this principle: > Better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt > -- Abraham Lincoln ^6d4d9a --- Tags: [[Introversion]] - [[🌲️/Business]] - [[Learning]] - [[Culture]] - [[Knowledge Economy]] - [[Ego]] Reference: [[( 2020-11-14 Quiet People in Meetings Are Incredible]] Related: