Being dismissed by other people rarely feels like an advantage in the moment. Giorgia Meloni, Italy's first woman prime minister, argued that it can genuinely become one. "To the women of this nation I want to say that being underestimated is a great advantage, because often they don't see you coming," she said. Rather than treating low expectations as something to fear, she framed them as room to work quietly and prove something before anyone was really paying attention. It is a distinction plenty of people recognise from their own experience, whatever they happen to think of the person who said it.
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