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Over the years, I’ve realized that I rarely enter conversations first. My instinct has always been to understand the other person before contributing to the conversation. That usually means saying very little at the beginning, allowing people to express everything they need to without interruption, disagreement, or the pressure of an immediate response. I’ve noticed…
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Over the years, I’ve admired my first judgment more than my first explanation. The judgment usually arrives immediately, while the explanation evolves over time as it gathers evidence, changes shape, becomes more precise, and occasionally finds an entirely new way of expressing the same conviction. Many of the judgments I made early in my career…