Ashley ChandlerFounder + CEO, The Teenage Guide · Founder and CEO, The Teenage Guide | Parent and Teen Coach

Doing nothing is still an action

29 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Every choice to act or stay silent shapes what happens next. Doing nothing isn't neutral. The speaker argues that inaction actively produces results, and the consequences are real.

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Every action or inaction produces a result, period. We sometimes mistakenly believe that if we don't do something or say something, that there's no result from that, that there is no action, there is no consequence. It's actually the reverse is always true. By us not saying the thing, by us not doing the thing or taking action in a certain way, that is causing a result. And it might be causing the experience or the result, the very real lived experience of that constant struggle.