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When we're little, we learn that we have to communicate with other children. Knowing how to say or show what we think, or how we admire others, is in fact one of the wonders of our socialized mind.
As we grow up, we end up developing these characteristics, and we become more and more communicative. But is this always the case?
As far as I'm concerned, not at all. You see, as we enter adulthood, that is, as we enter the world of work, we are presented with many new challenges. Not everything we think should be communicated in any way, or even expressed to our colleagues at work, whether they are superiors or even subordinates.
How often do we end up denouncing something that we should keep to ourselves? And I'm not just talking about the strategy itself.
One thing is obviously certain, the more we talk, the more likely we are to say something that we shouldn't say, that is completely wrong, or that should be kept secret.
This paradigm sometimes leads us to think that we have a few friends at work. And that may well be true. But we mustn't forget that silence is almost always golden. Knowing how to keep our turn to speak ends up giving us an almost status of being above some situations that are a little embarrassing.
Let's look at that work meeting where the whole board is present and there's always that one colleague who tries to dominate the meeting and can't stop talking? Anyone who knows him knows that's the way he is. And the likelihood of being heard, or of your point of view actually having any weight in important decision-making by the company's decision-makers, is reduced to a minimum.
In other words, you end up taking away the importance of your words, your speech and, consequently, your ideas.
Can anyone see paying attention to a colleague who can't stop interrupting others and can't be succinct? Very unlikely.
When adulthood arrives, there is a hard road ahead. Always try to use the gift of gab more consciously, and in such a way that we are not only heard, but also listened to. There are often situations in which one of the colleagues who speaks very little in these meetings, if he decides to share an opinion or idea, will surely be listened to more attentively than anyone else because he uses his word so sparingly. And he may not even be running the meeting.
I feel that I still have a long way to go. I often say too much of what I think, and I don't keep my thoughts or opinions to myself, which puts me at a disadvantage to others by my own actions.
I believe that trying to remain silent for longer will only benefit me. And I hope I can do it more often.
Cheers
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