Comment by sublinear
3 years ago
For what it's worth I highly disagree with a lot of the opinions in here.
Waiting prioritizes clear communication at the expense of some time that is almost always justified. People who wait are typically detail oriented and have the infamously prevailing cooler heads. They're the ones actually getting stuff done while management impatiently glances at their pathetically underspecified checklists.
Interrupting prioritizes a false sense of efficiency and just seems like weak impulse control or a bad short-term memory. Every interrupter I've ever met is disorganized and unreliable.
> Interrupting prioritizes a false sense of efficiency and just seems like weak impulse control or a bad short-term memory. Every interrupter I've ever met is disorganized and unreliable
While I have noticed that ADHD people gravitate towards interrupters, and are more likely to be disorganized and unreliable, generalizing this to all interrupters is absurd.
Everybody in my mom's family is an interpreter, including my mom. You will meet few people more organized and reliable than her.
Personally, I'll often interrupt when I know someone is wrong about a topic, in the interest of efficiency.
How can you possibly know someone is wrong until you've heard them out?
It's very much worth questioning what your accuracy threshold is before deciding to interrupt.
Maybe they're wrong about a minor detail but have a much better overall plan. Maybe they have some ideas buried under all the mud that are worth the wait.
If the perception of efficiency is always the priority, that will come at the cost of everything else.
It only takes a single sentence sometimes.