Setting aside the differences between extroverts and introverts, and those who are confident online and those who are not, my biggest worry is the number of people I encounter in business who are still playing safe.
Whether it is not speaking up on Zoom calls, saying what you think on work forums, or chipping in in meetings, all too often I see people sitting on their hands and keeping their heads down.
Clearly this is as a result of long and deeply held fears. Fear of being criticised, fear of being found out, fear of conflict.
But the perceived risks that lie behind these fears pale into insignificance in comparison to the ever increasing risk of not being seen, of your contribution never being recognised, and increasingly, in the not too distant future, the risk of being replaced by a bot.
The safest thing you can do these days is to feel risky.
The Obvious? 
You could write a book about this.
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This seems as relevant today as it was when it was written:
“[A] mood of universal destruction and renewal…has set its mark on our age. This mood makes itself felt everywhere, politically, socially, and philosophically. We are living in what the Greeks called the kai- ros—the right moment—for a “metamorphosis of the gods,” of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious human within us who is changing. Coming gener- ations will have to take account of this momentous transformation if humanity is not to destroy itself through the might of its own technology and science. . . . So much is at stake and so much depends on the psychological constitution of the modern human.”
Jung, C. G., “The Undiscovered Self ” (1956), in Collected Works of Carl Gustav Jung, Vol. 10, tr. R. F. C. Hull, ed. H. Read et al. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970) pars. 585–586.
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It certainly feels like that, and in its own way exciting.
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