Quiet People in Meetings Are Incredible

There are these hidden people that attend meetings. They say nothing. You can attend ten meetings in a row and never hear them say a word. Their words are a privilege reserved for the royal family. You find yourself dying to know what they would say. They act as a fly on the wall. With every meeting, they get smarter, by saying nothing at all.

They observe the loud beasts, rather than become a beast.

When I was working a job, I listened my way to mastery. By sitting in meeting after meeting and saying nothing, I learned what the customer did and how my employer’s business worked. When you listen, people assume you know what you’re doing. And guess what? you will know what you’re doing if you listen. He Excelled much faster in his career because he was ahead of the knowledge curve.

There is so much hot air and noise in meetings that achieve nothing. The loudest person in the room is the dumbest because He/She doesn’t know, or have the discipline to shut up. Don’t make your life a tragedy by talking too much in meetings.

To shut up is to listen.
To listen is to change your life.

Why? When you listen you learn. When I was working a job and was way out of my depth looking after a billion-dollar Silicon Valley Tech company, I listened my way to mastery. By sitting in meeting after meeting and saying nothing, I learned what the customer did and how my employer’s business worked. Nobody in those meetings ever found out that I had no idea.

When you listen, people then assume you know what you’re doing. And guess what? You will know what you’re doing if you listen.

Quiet people change the world because they hear things others don’t.

Fall in love with quiet people in meetings.

Study those gorgeous quiet creatures.

You too can be a quiet person if you choose — but first, you have to see the magic of quiet people, to be moved to silence.