As a business person by day and an entrepreneur by night, I have participated in quite a few conferences in the last ten years.
can be a strange experience. Before you know it, the meeting may get out of control. Leaders who wear pinstripe suits or whose hair turns white by the day may lose their conspiracy. They use words to express themselves. In other words, they talked a lot. As the meeting progressed, the duel continued. Leaders talk nonsense everywhere. Those looking for the next promotion will do the same.
Seeming smart is the key. Use a spreadsheet and insert a phrase that they have never said in the customer's mouth to make sure it is believed to be correct or that you have a connection with the customer.
Everything sucks. Meetings are a waste of time. No resolution was reached.
But everything is fine. The meeting taught me a valuable lesson: observe calm people.
There are these hidden people who attend the meeting. They say nothing. You can attend ten meetings in a row, but you cannot hear them say a word. His words are reserved for the royal family. You find yourself wondering what they will say. They are like flies on the wall. Every time they have a meeting, they get smarter and don't say anything.
What they observe is a noisy beast, not a beast.
Used to be very loud in meetings. These quiet people made me change my mind. Now I try to sit quietly in most meetings without saying a word. I'm still a long way from mastering this skill, but it has taught me a lot.
The loudest person in the room is not necessarily the oldest or the brightest spark.
titles make people do stupid things. One of the minor sins is to talk too much. You can have a title today and leave tomorrow.
It is the disobedient people who ruin the business. They think they know the market, but in fact they don’t know anything at all.
The brightest spark in the room can't say anything. They take notes there and pay attention to what is happening. They watched their duel, and saw no room for interruption. After the
meeting, they returned to their desks to help fill out the action checklist. They are doers, not speakers.
The person who speaks the loudest and loudest in a meeting is not the smartest. They drown out the solutions of people who really work.
It's okay to sit still. It will not make you a loser; it will make you smart.
Bright sparks know when to shut up.
Of course, sometimes you will be asked to speak on a topic. You cannot say no, and you cannot signal with your hands.
The idea is to say a few words as little as possible and put forward your point of view. Then, once you have said what you need to say in the shortest time, you know when to shut up.
Knowing when not to speak is an art.
Learn to shut up at the right time so that people who don't speak can listen. You can also hear the unsaid content.
Bright spark knows when to listen and learn.
Silence is listening.
Listening is changing your life. Chapter
Why? When you listen, you will learn. When I was working and managing a $1 billion Silicon Valley technology company outside of my alliance, I listened to my path to mastery. By sitting in one meeting after another without saying a word, I learned what the client did and how my employer’s business works. No one at those meetings found out I didn't know.
When you listen, people think you know what you are doing. guess what? If you listen, you will know what you are doing.
I remember hearing that a person (he forgot his name) was listening at a meeting. Using the art of listening, he stood up and participated in a meeting with the two founders of Google.
All he did was sit there quietly, he just offered to take notes for the meeting. No one has ever questioned it. What he learned in these meetings completely changed his life. He performed faster in his career because he was ahead of the knowledge curve, thanks to the meetings he had to attend.
If you listen, you will learn what you will never learn at a prestigious university. You can argue that this person's education from the two Google founders is better than their college degree, all through listening.
Praise the silence, not the hot air and noise.
My goal in the meeting now is to be the person with the smallest voice in the room. There was so much hot air and noise in the meeting, but nothing was gained. Your desire to be heard in the meeting can hinder your learning.
Your ego makes you talk a lot. If you learn to calm down and reduce your importance, you will end up talking less in meetings.
The loudest person in the room is the dumbest, because he doesn't know or has the discipline to keep quiet. It's a tragedy, don't make your life a tragedy just because you talk too much in the meeting.
Quiet people change the world because they hear what others have not heard.
People who like to be quiet in meetings.
Research those beautiful and calm creatures.
You can also be a quiet person, but you must first see the magic of a quiet person before you can enter silence.
Very influential and thought provoking.