The quote begins with a deceptively simple claim: people often give up power by believing they have none. That belief acts like a quiet permission slip for others—bosses, institutions, even social expectations—to decide what is possible. In other words, power isn’t only taken; it’s also relinquished when someone stops seeing choices, boundaries, and alternatives.
Then the line pivots into a sharp, modern example—checking work email at 11 PM on a Saturday—which underscores how this surrender can look ordinary. What seems like a minor habit becomes a symbol of how agency erodes through repeated, unexamined compliance. [...]
