Enthusiasm

Why enthusiasm is something you should desire to have.

The saddest days of our lives are those that we can find nothing to be enthusiastic about. A persons enthusiasm is in direct proportion to the importance of what it is he is looking forward to.

There are all sorts of degrees of enthusiasm.

We tend to be more enthusiastic on Friday simply because it is the last day of the week and we have a free weekend coming up.

We tend to be more enthusiastic about going home from work at night then we are before leaving in the morning.

The most fortunate people on Earth live most of their life in a state of energizing enthusiasm.

There are two keys to enthusiasm, one comes from learning and the other comes from accomplishments.

Learning new things tends to keep our enthusiasm high, perhaps this explains the natural enthusiasm of children.

If you paid attention to children you would notice they are naturally enthusiastic and they are naturally happy.

The reason adults tend to lose a lot of their enthusiasm for living is that they usually stop learning. As soon as school is over they take the stand either consciously or unconsciously that they know enough.

Any learning they do from that point on they do passively, through the natural passage of time and experience, or again passively through the media news, television, newspaper or radio.

If new learning comes to them it does so largely through no effort at or minimal efforts on their part.

Learning little that's new or interesting makes their lives become repetitious, they see the same people, do the same things, then gradually all the enthusiasm runs from their lives.