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Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged,

Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.

How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra

work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers,

It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the

1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't let up on her experiments.

Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

We are all born with wide- eyed, enthusiastic wonder as anyone knows who has ever seen an

infant's delight at the jingle of keys or the scurrying of a beetle.

It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their

age.

At

90,

cellist

Pablo

Casals

would

start

his

day

by

playing

Bach.

As

the

music

flowed

through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes.

Music,

for

Casals,

was

an

elixir

that

made

life

a

never

ending

adventure.

As

author

and

poet

Samuel Ullman once wrote,

How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies in the

word

itself.

comes

from

the

Greek

and

means

within.

And

what

is

God

within is but an abiding sense of love -- proper love of self (self-acceptance) and, from that, love

of others.

Enthusiastic

people

also

love

what

they

do,

regardless

of

money

or

title

or

power.

If

we

cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time avocation, like the head of

state who paints, the nun who runs marathons, the executive who handcrafts furniture.

Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended

bouts of depression that had plagued her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one

critic to say,

We can't afford to waste tears on

as we go after