Enthusiasm!
YES!!!!
What naturally causes you to get enthusiastic?
I am entheusiasm incarnate. I'm not kidding. I am always in a good mood. I am always ready to look adversity in the face and make things happen, no matter what. It is just part of who I am. Some say that is one aspect of ADHD personality types, we're always in a good mood, always creative, always positive, so the entheusiasm is likely an extension of that, methinks.
So, what causes me to get enthusiastic?
NOTHING yet EVERYTHING! I cause enthusiasm to manifest wherever I mgiht be.
Do you believe you get better results when you're enthusiastic?
Interesting question.
I do not believe that a happy idiot working as a carpenter will get better results working a power saw than a grumpy idiot working a power saw. I think both idiots will do their best because of the real and present danger that they will lose a finger or two if they don't do things correctly. So, in this example MOOD is independent of PERFORMANCE, and if anything FEAR is the MOTIVATOR of PERFORMANCE.
Now let's talk about idiots in an office environment. You have a team of idiots. They must INTERACT with one and other because no single idiot on the team knows all there is to know to solve the objectives of the project. People INTERACT more when there is ENTHEUSIASM about the work at hand, and in the air in general. So long as they are staying on topic it is the QUANTITY of INTERACTION that will drive the AMOUNT of work in this group of idiots. If you are lucky, you have one perosn who knows what they are doing LEADING the group of idiots, and they are setting up the draft work plan, and herding the idiots along to extract the needed information as the idiots INTERACT with one and other.
So, entheusiasm CAN lead to better results, but is not a prerequisite for optimizing performance in all cases.
How do you bring it into your life/job/home/etc if it isn't there?
As I said before, I am the source of my own entheusiasm, so my presence is going to increase the amount of entheusiasm wherever I am. Wherever there is a differential of entheusiasm (Me VS My Environment) my environment begins to become effected by me, the jovial gregarious extravert from hell.
Thankfully I have some common sense, not much, but some.
I can usually figure out pretty quickly if my locale is cool with me perking it up, or if it is going to make things worse. If it's a doomy gloomy roomy, I interact with who I need to to get what I need done, and bid them farewell as I leave the room.
Alos, you're talking to an ESTP 7w8 sx/so who is married to an INFJ 1w9 sp/sx. For the majority of our 16 years together I have been the one in the more entheusiastic mood. There are times when I have tried to "fix" Mrs. Halla's lack of entheusiasm, and she has become angered by me doing so. If it is something that she needs to work through, I simply give her a hug, a kiss, and tell her to come to me if she needs anything at all. Then I retreat to my man cave or go bonkers with the kids in the family room.
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