Shut Up And Listen
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.
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