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the quiet talent of doing what you're told before you've decided you agree
means The act or practice of doing what you are told to do by someone in authority, complying with a rule, command, or request.
from From Latin oboedientia, 'compliance,' built on oboedire, 'to obey'—itself a fusion of ob- ('toward, in the direction of') and audire ('to hear'). At its root, obedience is a kind of listening: to obey is literally to hear someone out and bend to them. The word came into English through Old French obedience in the medieval period, carrying its ear-shaped logic intact—you listen toward, then you do.
- milgram shock
- 65% obeyed orders to deliver lethal-seeming jolts
- latin root
- oboedire means literally to listen toward
- dog sport
- competitive obedience is a real titled discipline
- vow trio
- monks pledge poverty, chastity, and obedience
- defense plea
- following orders rarely survives a war tribunal
dog obedience trials — competitive events where dogs perform commands for judges, established by kennel clubs like the akc since 1933
milgram obedience experiments — 1961 yale psychology study where subjects administered electric shocks to learners following experimenter orders