You can be the quietest person in the room and the least confused.

Volume and understanding are unrelated, though rooms often behave as though they were the same thing. Talking is how some people think and silence is how others do it, so the person saying least may simply be finishing the reasoning before it goes public. Quiet only becomes a weakness when what you worked out never gets said. The understanding itself owes nobody a performance.

If you lean quiet, keep it, and set one small rule: when you reach a clear conclusion, say it once. Do not wait for an invitation. A single sentence at the right moment carries a long way.