Growth sometimes looks like saying less, explaining less and proving less.

There is a stage where you argue with everyone, and a later stage where you stop needing to. Not because you care less, but because your certainty stops depending on whether the other person agrees. Silence that used to feel like losing starts to feel like having somewhere else to be.

Notice the next time you are assembling a defence nobody asked for. Try letting the comment stand unanswered and see what it actually costs you. Usually nothing, and you get the afternoon back.