Think we all are here to some degree to find out how to dodge some of our own childhood baggage. I finished my first grade math book in less than a month and that was all the math I got that year.
School did prepare me well for corporate and IT meetings. But not in the sense of tolerating boredom; I almost pathologically refuse to be bored. In school I filled my extra time thinking beyond the bounds of the material, and as I got older I payed attention to what the teacher knew, what other students knew or didn't know, and generally payed attention to those around me. I also checked out on competitive ego needs as I saw grades as completely ridiculous.
So, in meetings, I know what everyone has to contribute, I know where branches of thought will lead and I get out ahead of them. While people are doing their bit of chat work to the easy conclusions, I'm figuring out the gotchas. If a needed expert is quiet, I'll solicit their input specifically and directly.
I've found the double-talkers tend to know less than half their actual job, and they get quiet if you catch them in their blindspots without quite shaming them and will back out.
The people with decision authority can sit back and wait their turn to say yay or nay. If they seem to need more, then I feed them an 80% socratic led solution, and they can be the heroes.
If a group concensus is needed and there is too much hemming and hawing, I put out a straw man solution. People can quickly get it together to take something apart.
And all that started from my conclusion in 3rd grade that it is better to give the answers no one else does than to raise your hand every time. In fact it is best to wait for that awkward pause just before the teacher sighs and gives the answer. From nerd to hero in one easy step.
But I still think it is functionally criminal for a compulsory education system to not be teaching every child every day.
