Speak before you think.
Jul 5, 2026 · 8 min · 10 segments
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Jul 5, 2026 · 8 min · 10 segments
**—Links—** Career Coaching: https://www.mrjonathanoffice.com/career-coaching Job Search Coaching…
Jonathan LeeHost
You finally have something to say, but you're a step too slow, and the meeting has already moved on.
Or worse, you have something to say, and someone else says the exact same thing, seconds before you.
One obvious reason is that English is our second language, but there's a cultural reason too.
Growing up in the Chinese education system, most of us simply never got many chances to speak.
I would know, because as a CBC in Canada, I grew up with those chances all around me.
I majored in business administration, and in my program, nobody cared much about assignments.
The number of times you spoke in class multiplied by the quality of what you said, which means if you never spoke, your score was zero.
Guess what happens when the incentives are set to encourage speaking? Whenever the professor asked a question, there was none of the awkward silence of a Chinese classroom.
Was it an astonishingly accurate representation of the real workplace? Absolutely.
In a crowd of coworkers fighting for attention, sometimes your best move is to raise your hand first and then figure out what you want to say.
You finally have something to say, but you're a step too slow, and the meeting has already moved on.
Or worse, you have something to say, and someone else says the exact same thing, seconds before you.
One obvious reason is that English is our second language, but there's a cultural reason too.
Growing up in the Chinese education system, most of us simply never got many chances to speak.
I would know, because as a CBC in Canada, I grew up with those chances all around me.
I majored in business administration, and in my program, nobody cared much about assignments.
The number of times you spoke in class multiplied by the quality of what you said, which means if you never spoke, your score was zero.
Guess what happens when the incentives are set to encourage speaking? Whenever the professor asked a question, there was none of the awkward silence of a Chinese classroom.
Was it an astonishingly accurate representation of the real workplace? Absolutely.
In a crowd of coworkers fighting for attention, sometimes your best move is to raise your hand first and then figure out what you want to say.
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