The best testimony you’ll ever hear might be from the janitor, not the guest speaker.

Wisdom is not distributed according to who gets a microphone. The person invited to speak was invited because they are good at speaking, which is a separate skill from having lived through anything, and the person emptying the bins may have thirty years of the harder kind of knowledge. Who you choose to listen to is one of the few things fully in your control.

Ask the longest-serving, least celebrated person in your building a real question this week. How did you end up here, or what do most people get wrong. Then stay quiet long enough for the answer.