A steady person becomes valuable when circumstances stop being steady.

When things are running normally, steadiness is unremarkable and can even look like a lack of energy. When circumstances break down, it becomes the most useful quality in the room, because everyone else is reacting and someone has to be able to think. That value is entirely invisible until the moment it is needed.

If you are the steady sort, understand that its worth appears in the difficult periods rather than the smooth ones. And if you are not, it is a capacity that can be built through deliberately staying in moderately stressful situations rather than avoiding them.