A person exhibiting doing nothing passive behavior feels uncomfortable and experiences himself as not thinking. He is discounting his own ability to do anything about the situation.

1. Doing Nothing

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
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School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
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3. Passive behaviors
• When I discount, I do so by making
statement to myself in my own
head.
• Thus a discount itself is not
observable.
• Since you can’t thought read, you
have no way of knowing I am
discounting unless I speak or act in
some way which indicates the
presence of the discount.

4. Passive behaviors
• There are four types of behavior
which always indicate that the
person concerned is
discounting. They are
• Doing nothing.
• Over adaptation.
• Agitation.
• Incapacitation or violence.

5. Doing nothing
• The members of a TA group are
sitting in a circle.
• The group leader says : “ Let’s
go round the group and each
person say what he or she
appreciates or resents about
today’s session. If you don’t
want to take part, it’s OK to say
“Pass”.
• The exercise begins. People
round the group each give an
appreciation or resentment.
One or two say “Pass”.

6. Doing nothing
• Then came Norman’s turn. There is a silence. People
waited for Norman to say something but he doesn’t.
• He sits unmoving and silent, staring into space. Since he
doesn’t seem to want to speak any appreciation or
resentment, the person next to him waits for him to say
“Pass”.
• But Norman doesn’t do that either. He continues to sit
as if dumb.

7. Doing nothing
• Norman is showing the passive
behavior called doing nothing.
• Instead of using energy to take
problem solving action, he is
using into to stop himself from
acting.
• A person exhibiting this passive
behavior feels uncomfortable
and experiences himself as not
thinking.
• He is discounting his own ability
to do anything about the
situation.

8. Thank You

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