Crowds change their minds every week. Pick values you’d defend even when the room disagrees.

Group opinion moves fast and rarely stays anywhere for long. What a room agrees on this month can reverse by next term, and the people most certain today are often the first to switch. Borrowed positions mean a life spent updating them. The ones you actually hold are the ones you would still say out loud after the room turns.

Pick two or three things you believe and write them plainly enough to repeat under pressure. Then watch for the next moment when agreeing would be easier. Saying the unpopular thing once, calmly, is how you learn what you really own.