Delfino´s Issue 1 May.2014 | Page 4

PASSIVE

What is being Passive?

Passive people are those kinds of persons that want to avoid conflict at any cost because they fear trouble and to confront other people to express themselves, in other words, they are people that reserve everything for them. If they ever get to express themselves they do it in a very timid and apologetically way.

The Perks of Being Assertive

Why is people passive?

Many people adopt a passive response because they have a strong need to be liked by others. Such people do not regard themselves as equals because they place greater weight on the rights, wishes and feelings of others.

Their characteristics are...

Passive people have a very sad way to think of themselves. Passive people allow their rights to be violated in the belief that they have fewer rights, or more responsibilities than others, and that they have less personal worth than others do. Being passive is not good because everyone has the right to speak for themselves and defend their opinion.

By Armando Gómez