an you show me where you get the definitions that support your claims and what shows that most people agree?
acting in anticipation of future problems, needs, or changes; relating to, caused by, or being interference between previous learning and the recall or performance of later learning… See the full definition
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Pro-active includes IN ANTICIPATION
characterized by action rather than by contemplation or speculation; producing or involving action or movement; asserting that the person or thing represented by the grammatical subject performs the action represented by the verb… See the full definition
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Active does not necessarily include anything in advance.
Your mum tells you to clean your room.
You decide to clean your room without your mum reminding you.
You would use the word "active" to describe what the person does in the 2nd sentence?
Being active is how you would describe someone who is deciding to do something like clean their room before they are reminded, or who decides to do something -- it can also be something others don't like, but you thought might help you look good to someone else and makes others look not so good -- because the point is it's done IN ANTICIPATION of how this will impact others or anything outside of what was expected.
