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> It's all about your perspective. "I have many ideas, I'm working hard to achieve them, and I'd like to keep it that way." > This could also be construed as s

> It's all about your perspective. "I have many ideas, I'm working hard to achieve them, and I'd like to keep it that way." > This could also be construed as static, self-satisfied, and "complacent" in it's own way. Complacency is ultimately a negative and derogatory word - using it to characterize an approach you don't agree with seems disingenuous. This is a baffling. "Something that is always changing could be seen as not changing because it's never not changing." I'm having a hard time seeing that as a good-faith rebuttal. The rest, I'm mostly on-board with.

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> This is a baffling. "Something that is always changing could be seen as not changing because it's never not changing." I'm having a hard time seeing that as a good-faith rebuttal. I think we are talking in abstract platitudes to such an extent that the forest might get missing for the trees. In practical terms, a workaholic can fit the mold of "I have many ideas, I'm working hard to achieve them, and I'd like to keep it that way.". A workaholic can also have all the characteristics of a complacent individual - brimming with self-satisfaction, satisfied with their routine, self-smug attitude, no desire to change their ways. Ironically, a workaholic could justify such an attitude to themselves by calling other people complacent. And just for reference, the dictionary definition of the word complacent: complacent: marked by self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies