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The space between watching and owning the outcome.
means The state of being part of something — invested, engaged, or implicated in it rather than standing apart from it.
from Built from the Latin volvere, 'to roll,' which also gives us 'revolve' and 'evolve.' To 'involve' originally meant to roll something up, wrap it, or envelop it — picture a scroll being rolled into a bundle. Over time the physical sense of being wrapped up in something turned figurative: if a matter rolls you up in its folds, you're entangled, implicated, drawn in. 'Involvement' is the noun that settled on top of that long drift from cloth to consequence.
- vs commitment
- Chicken is involved, pig is committed in bacon and eggs
- psychology term
- Predicts how much effort you will actually spend
- legal flavor
- Courts use it to measure blame without full responsibility
- etymology
- From Latin involvere, literally to roll into