what silence is being spoken of
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Silence can motivate students to attempt to answer questions. As I learned from my experience as a resident, if you can become comfortable enduring the harsh thud of silence once you've thrown out a question, training yourself to wait far beyond the point that feels comfortable, someone will crack before you do and try to answer your question. And at least one study has shown we're more likely to remember the correct answer to a question if we're told it after guessing incorrectly than if we're told it after refusing to venture a guess at all.
Silence can make you more effective at your job. That is, if you can force yourself to listen before giving into the impulse to speak. My wife, a commercial real estate broker, makes effective use of silence when she conducts a "discovery session" with her clients, saying almost nothing about herself or her strategies for finding them office space until after she's listened thoroughly to their business requirements and issues they find important. How else, she argues, can she be sure when she does propose space solutions that she's meeting her clients' needs? One would think every real estate broker would do this, but she finds herself continually astounded (and pleased) by how few of her competitors actually do. Skipping this step isn't limited to the business world, either. When patients refuse recommended tests or therapies, doctors typically respond by launching into arguments designed to make their advice clearer. Rarely do I see a doctor pause first to ask why the patient is refusing. But when I silence myself and listen first, I often learn my preconceived notions about why I'm being refused are wrong. One patient with a clear need for a cardiac catheterization refused it not out of a fear of possible complications as I'd presumed but because he didn't think he could lie flat for the required six hours afterward. Listening first enables me to either allay a patient's unjustified fears or understand their legitimate objections. And if an objection is legitimate, how can I decide how to deal with it—attempt to counter it or make an alternative recommendation