You can spend hours learning, researching, and staying current while becoming less clear about what deserves your attention. Useful information can quietly start directing your career before you’ve decided what deserves action.

If you’re the person who can make almost anything happen, you may have gotten very fast at responding before you’ve decided. This Vignette looks at the career reflex hiding inside that efficiency.

Being easy to work with can hide a lot of self-editing. For the secondborn at work, clarity begins when the full sentence gets to enter the room.