In a meeting, being first to speak doesn’t make you more useful. The faster you react, the less you’ve thought. Waiting to hear what others say first isn’t passivity: it’s data collection. You learn what the room already thinks before you add to it, which changes whether your input moves the group or just layers noise onto an existing position.
[[Disconnect to connect]] before difficult conversations produces better input than arriving with a position already formed. [[Meetings are not the place to surprise people]] applies in reverse too: the person who waits, absorbs, and then speaks to the actual shape of the room is the one whose opinion lands.