Re:Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage ...
by barrystaes on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @05:41AM
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> Anyone else experience this? Got any tips?
Sometimes. Some things i do to ensure correct question-answer contexts:
- When in a meeting with (loud person pushing) wrong answers, ask the right questions.
- People dont understand the answer if they dont understand the question.
- Use the above to give the obvious correct solution within their context.
This is in stark contrast to the workplace where I've experienced that keeping my mouth shut in a meeting to gather my thoughts before contributing a well informed opinion, the loudest person in the room has already spoken a handful of times and left their mark and then continues to speak over people and dominate the conversation for better or worse (usually the latter unless they are a SME).
I'm then forced to revert to speaking ASAP to get a word in so I don't walk away from a meeting being perceived as contributing little cause I was getting enough words.
Maybe it's all in my head cause I'm an introvert and meetings drain my energy. Anyone else experience this? Got any tips?