Gate 44 (Coming to Meet) sits in the Spleen. It gauges others' skills with a recruitment instinct, fed by bodily memory of past successes and failures. Fear that the past will repeat sharpens this alertness.
Gate 26 (The Egoist) brings the will to transmit and lead. Without it, Gate 44 remains an instinct of knowing without transmission power. Together they form the Channel of Surrender (26-44).