120 philosophical essays you must read in your life

Chapter 28

Chapter 2 Section 6 The Passion of Life

[United States] Napoleon Hill

The relationship between enthusiasm and positive attitude and your success process is like the relationship between gasoline and car engine. Enthusiasm is the driving force for action.

Just as you can use a positive attitude to control your thoughts, you can use a positive attitude to control your enthusiasm so that it can be continuously injected into the cylinder of your mental engine and sent out by definite purpose in the cylinder. A spark ignites and explodes, pushing the piston of confidence and personal aggressiveness.

Enthusiasm is a force that, along with confidence, turns adversity, failure, and temporary setbacks into action.The key to this change, however, is your ability to control your thoughts, because if you're not careful, your thoughts can shift from positive to negative.By controlling your enthusiasm, you can turn any negative performance and experience into a positive one.

Enthusiasm motivates your subconscious mind as much as a positive attitude does.When your conscious mind is full of enthusiasm, and your subconscious mind is also imprinted with an impression, then your strong desires and plans for achieving them are unwavering; when your awareness of enthusiasm becomes blurred, Your subconscious mind still has a rich vision of success and will rekindle the spark of enthusiasm that was left in your conscious mind.

A man without enthusiasm is as powerless as a watch without a winding.A theology professor said: "An absolute requirement for success, efficiency, and power is enthusiasm." The word "enthusiasm" is derived from the Greek word for "God is in you." A person without enthusiasm can't win any victories.

In order to make you passionate about your goal, you should focus your thoughts on this goal every day, so that day after day, you will have a high degree of enthusiasm for the goal and be willing to dedicate to it.James said: "Emotions may not be controlled by reason, but they must be controlled by actions." Positive attitudes and positive actions can increase the level of enthusiasm. You must set a goal worth pursuing for your enthusiasm. Once you direct your enthusiasm toward success, it will move you toward your goals.

True passion is passion that comes from within, and discovering passion is like getting water from a well. You have to operate the pump to get the water out, and the water just keeps on flowing.You can have passion for anything you know or do, it's a sign of a positive attitude, it will naturally develop from thoughts, feelings and emotions, but more importantly you can summon passion from within whenever you want .

Enthusiasm is really powerful!When this power is unleashed in support of a definite goal and replenished with confidence, it becomes an irresistible force strong enough to overcome all poverty and dissatisfaction, and you can pass on this power to anyone who needs it its people.This is probably the greatest work you can do with your passion, to spark the imagination of others, to stimulate their creativity, to help them connect with infinite wisdom.

【Together with you】

When General MacArthur commanded the Allied Forces in the South Pacific, there was also a sign on the wall of his office, which read this motto: "You are young when you have faith, and old when you doubt; you are young when you are confident, and old when you are fearful; Hope is young, despair is old; age wrinkles your skin, but loss of enthusiasm mars your soul."

This is the best compliment for enthusiasm.Enthusiasm can maintain the soul, it is not just an external appearance, it comes from the heart.Enthusiasm is an inspiring spirit that will inspire others and energize them to move towards a beautiful ideal.There is only one life, and life is nothing but the accumulation of time.If I let this day pass by, I will destroy the last page of my life.

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