2. It allows you to do less talking and more observing.
It’s easy to get caught up in everything that is going on around us when we are actively trying to take part in the happenings. However, if we slow down and peer in from the sidelines, we’ll begin to see things that before were hidden in plain sight.
This is a great advantage regardless of whether you are standing and observing a conversation, which you are supposedly part of or whether you are simply observing all that is going on in your environment. Life is full of little surprises – we just rarely take the time to observe.