In short, it means that rather than passively sitting back and simply letting someone else talk while waiting for your chance to speak, you engage in the conversation without words.
This is the process of truly engaging with the text instead of passively just running your eyes over it, which will help you retain a lot more of what you read.
The Irulan in the first book did as she was told and nothing more - a passive participant in her own life - though what she does later in the series is another story entirely.
And by becoming someone who took an interest in the world around him, rather than passively waiting for people to take an interest in him, Carter never felt lonely again, not even when he was completely alone.
This is kinda like how stretching out a rubber band makes it snap back even harder, except that cardiac muscle is actively contracting whereas the rubber band is passively going back to its relaxed state.
This particular type of investing strategy is extremely attractive and stagnant markets where it's harder to generate strong returns by just buying something and passively waiting for it to to be worth more.
However, if you have a solid foundation in a language, if you've been absorbing a language passively for many years, yes, you can make the jump to fluency relatively easily.
A girl named Friday greets them, ignores Count Olaf, and introduces the Baudelaires to Ishmael, the island leader who often passively controls the decisions of the people on the island.
Because if you're learning just passively constantly, it's just like watching a YouTube video, you want to put it to practice right away and as much as possible.
You chose a university that aims to make its students active participants in the work of understanding not just passive recipients of what others already know.
Nonetheless, Thomas and Chess had effectively nixed the idea that babies are born 'blank slates' who passively receive and are moulded by the environment.