You’re Sitting in Rooms People Would Pay Thousands to Be In. And Missing It.
You’re in the meeting.
You’ve done the work.
You’re focused on your update, your notes, your actions.
But you’re completely missing the most valuable thing happening in that room.
Because every meeting with senior people is a live masterclass.
Not in tasks.
Not in deliverables.
But in how decisions are actually made.
How leaders think under pressure.
How they handle disagreement.
How they decide what matters… and what doesn’t.
This isn’t about working harder or doing more.
It’s about paying attention differently.
Because one of the most underrated advantages in your career isn’t your degree or your technical skill.
It’s proximity.
In this episode, I break down how to turn everyday meetings into a real career advantage, using what I call learning by osmosis, so you can accelerate your judgement, influence, and growth without needing more time or permission.
HERE ARE THE 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:
1️⃣ Proximity is an underrated career advantage – you’re already in rooms where high-level decisions are being made. Conversations about risk, strategy, and trade-offs. Most people treat this as background noise, but it’s actually exposure to thinking that’s worth thousands per hour. The advantage isn’t just being there, it’s what you extract from it.
2️⃣ You don’t learn judgement from a manual, you learn it by watching – high-level decision-making isn’t taught explicitly. It’s absorbed. By paying attention to how senior people frame problems, respond to pressure, and navigate disagreement, you start to internalise patterns that shape your own thinking over time.
3️⃣ What you focus on in meetings determines how fast you grow – if your attention is only on your update or your notes, you’ll miss the real learning. But if you shift your focus to observing the room: what gets prioritised, what gets ignored, how decisions are made – meetings stop being admin and start becoming training.
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