How to Become the Most Insightful Person in the Room
It’s part education and part communication.
If you’re not already, you can become the most insightful person in the room. Not to show off. Not to stroke your ego. But to help those around you move forward — to help them find answers to the seemingly endless problems in politics, work, relationships, and life.
What is insight? Jonathan Dalton, the founder of Thrive, has an insightful way of describing it:
A new way of viewing the world that causes us to reexamine existing conventions and challenge the status quo.
You can do this. How do I know? Because insight is not something you’re just born with, it’s something you learn. It’s a perspective you can learn to take and a posture you can learn to exercise.
Here’s how you can become the most insightful person in the room.
Read Widely, Read Carefully, and Read Frequently
Insightful people aren’t necessarily the smartest people in the room, they’ve just put in the work of turning on their brain and exercising it regularly. As Joseph Addison, the English essayist, writes, “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” In…
