"I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill." - Edward Appleton, Nobel Prize winner
It's a familiar dilemma.
Corporations often rate people on two scales, "results" and "competencies." The "what" you accomplished, versus the "how." Which is more important, the person with perfect talent and awful personality, or vice versa?
Sports teams need to decide whether to give playing time the player who scores more baskets or has the better attitude.
Families have children who coast to good grades but could do more, and who work feverishly to get the same grades.
In those situations I tend to find myself rooting a lot harder for the one with the star competencies, the enthusiasm. You just want them to succeed, to overcome their own limitations. Enthusiasm is contagious; pour it out through your actions and it comes rolling back to you in good time, maybe not as instant results, but surely as a seed of appreciation by others. Those seeds, once grown, cause your efforts to be multiplied beyond your own abilities. Others will help you reach your full potential.
There are plenty of talented people who limit themselves to their own abilities, confined within their own contentedness, with fire burning for nothing.
Individuals wake up every morning with a fresh day ahead and a chance to do something enthusiastically to get rolling. What's your next move?
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