Fully agree, depending on context and how open to it the other people involved are. Always acknowledge it in your head—notice that you got distracted and missed something. On work calls (and in-person meetings, and even 1:1 sometimes), I usually don’t say it out loud unless it really matters. But then I fully agree to be direct about it—this happens to smart people a lot, and getting good at it is worthwhile.
Fully agree, depending on context and how open to it the other people involved are. Always acknowledge it in your head—notice that you got distracted and missed something. On work calls (and in-person meetings, and even 1:1 sometimes), I usually don’t say it out loud unless it really matters. But then I fully agree to be direct about it—this happens to smart people a lot, and getting good at it is worthwhile.