Loud..

In any work during a happy hour you’ve been, the ones who talk the most get the laughs, steer the conversation, and walk away looking confident. 

And the person who mostly listened gets quietly filed away as “hard to read” or “not really a team player.”

 Happens at brunches, in college seminars, in Slack threads when someone doesn’t reply for three hours. There are default assumptions in many social and workplace settings. If you’re not talking, you’re not engaged. If you're not loud, you're not doing much.

And neuroscience has been quietly arguing against that assumption for decades, and the findings are worth paying attention to, especially if you’ve ever been told you need to “speak up more.”

Silence is not always absence. But that's the cost of doing more processing than most people in the room are doing.  Just a "May Be" thought