One of the greatest tricks the passive person plays on himself or herself is to say, ‘But look how busy I am.’
A terrific talk on passivity by John Lee, based on his book The Half-Lived Life.
Two millennia earlier, Seneca wrote brilliantly about how we hide behind busyness.
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