INSPIRATION AS ENTHUSIASM

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                 INSPIRATION AS USED HERE, HAS REFERENCE TO THAT COMBINATION OF EMOTIONS USUALLY KNOWN AS ENTHUSIASM, BUT INSPIRED FEELING HAS A DEEPER MEANING BECAUSE IT IS RELATED TO THE SPIRITUAL POWERS OF MAN, AND HAS ITS SOURCE IN THE SUBCONCIOUS MIND.

                INSPIRATION - THE EMOTIONS PUT INTO ACTION THROUGH SPIRITUAL POWER- IS THE BEGINNING OF ALL GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS OF WHATEVER NATURE!

                EVERYONE DESIRES TO ACHIEVE PERSONAL SUCCESS, IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER, BUT ONLY THOSE WHO ACQUIRE THE HABIT OF FANNING THE FIRE OF ENTHUSIASM INTO A WHITE HEAT OF OBSESSIONAL DESIRE EVER ATTAIN NOTEWORTHY SUCCESS.

               MORE THAN FORTY YEARS AGO THE STEP-MOTHER OF A YOUNG MOUNTAINER CALLED HIM INTO THE FAMILY LIVING ROOM, EXCLUDED THE OTHER CHILDREN OF THE FAMILY FROM THE CONFERENCE, AND SAID SOMETHING WHICH CHANGED HIS ENTIRE LIFE FOR THE BETTER, AND AT THE SAME TIME PLANTED IN HIS MIND A DESIRE WHICH HE HAS TRANSPLANTED INTO THOUSANDS OF OTHER MINDS- THE DESIRE TO BECOME SELF- DETERMINING THROUGH THE REDERING OF USEFUL SERVICE.

             THIS BOY WAS ONLY ELEVEN YEARS OF AGE, BUT HE WAS KNOWN AMONG THE MOUNTAIN FOLK AS THE "WORST BOY IN THE COUNTRY!" THIS IS WHAT HIS STEP-MOTHER SAID TO HIM.

              PEOPLE MISJUDGE YOU. THEY CALL YOU THE WORST BOY IN THE COUNTRY, BUT YOU ARE NOT THE WORST BOY, YOU ARE THE MOST ACTIVE BOY, AND ALL YOU NEED IS A DEFINITE PURPOSE TO WHICH YOU CAN DIRECT THE ATTENTION OF YOUR INQUIRING MIND. YOU HAVE A KEEN IMAGINATION AND PLENTY OF INITIATIVE. THEREFORE I SUGGEST THAT YOU BECOME A WRITER. IF YOU WILL DO THIS, AND GIVE AS MUCH INTEREST TO READING NEIGHBORS, YOU MAY LIVE TO SEE THE TIME WHEN YOUR INFLUENCE WILL BE FELT THOUGHOUT THIS STATE. 

               THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THE STEP-MOTHER'S TONE OF VOICE WHICH REGISTERED EFFECTIVELY IN THE "BAD" BOY'S MIND. HE CAUGHT THE SPIRIT OF ENTHUSIASM IN WHICH HIS STEP-MOTHER HAD SPOKEN TO HIM,  AND BEGAN, IMMEDIATELY, TO ACT ON HER SUGGESTION.

               BY THE TIME HE WAS FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE HE WAS WRITING NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE STORIES THAT WERE BEING PUBLISHED  IN SMALL NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINES. HIS WRITING WAS NOT BRILLIANT, BUT IS CARRIED A SPIRIT OF ENUTHUSIASM WHICH MADE IT READABLE. 

               AT THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN HE WAS ASSINGNED, BY THE EDITOR OF BOB TAYLO'S MAGAZINE, TO WRITE THE STORY OF ANDREW CARNEGIE'S ACHIEVEMENTS IN INDUSTRY. THAT ASSIGNMENT WAS DESTINED TO BRING ANOTHER CHANGE IN HIS LIFE, FOR IT LED NOT ONLY TO AN OPPORTUNITY TO WRITE BOOKS THAT WOULD MAKE HIS INFLUENCE FELT THOUROUGHT THE STATE, AS HIS STEP- MOTHER HAD SUGGESTED, BUT THAT INFLUENCE NOW EXTENDS THOUGHOUT A MAJOR PORTION OF THE WORLD, AND IT IS OBVIOUSLY DESTINED TO RENDER USEFUL SERVICE IN HELPING TO SAVE THE AMERICA WAY OF LIFE FROM ANNIHILATION.

                

                        IN THE INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CARNEGIE, THIS YOUNG WRITER WAS MOVED BY MR. CARNEGIE'S ENTHUSIAM. HE ACQUIRED THE SPIRIT OF THAT ENTHUSIASM, AND IT HAS BEEN THAT SPIRIT WHICH HAS MADE HIS BOOKS BEST SELLERS FOR MANY YEARS.

                      MR.CARNEGIE HAS EMPHASIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF INITIATIVE, DEFITENESS OF PURPOSE, PERSISTENCE AND ORGANIZED ENDEAVOR, WE COME, NOW, TO THE CHAPTER IN WHICH AN ANALYSIS WILL BE MADE OF THE POWER BEHIND ALL THESE- THE POWER THAT GIVES LIFE AND ACTION TO THESE QUALITIES. THAT POWER IS KNOWN AS INPIRATION.

                     HILLL : I AM READY, MR. CARNEGIE FOR YOUR ANALYSIS OF THE ELEVENTH PRINCIPLE OF INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT, WHICH YOU CALL INSPIRATION. I WISH YOU TO DEFINE THE MEANING OF THIS TERM AND DESCRIBE HOW ONE MAY DEVELOP ENTHUSIASM AT WILL.

                     CARNEGIE HILLL : INSPIRATION CAN BE DEVELOPED BY STIMULATING THE FACULTY OF THE EMOTIONS, THROUGH ANY OF THE FOURTEEN MAJOR EMOTIONS WE HAVE MENTIONED IN PREVIOUS INTERVIEWS, OR ANY OTHER EMOTION.

                  HILL : THEN INSPIRATION IS EMOTION IS ACTION?

                 CARNEGIE : THAT IS THE BRIEF WAY OF STARTING IT. PERHAPS IT WOULD BE MORE CORRECTLY STATED IF ONE SAID THAT INSPIRATION IS VOLUNTARY EMOTION - A FEELING THAT ONE INNITIATES AT WILL. BUT, YOU HAVE OVERLOOKED ONE VERY IMPORTANT FACTOR IN YOUR QUESTION, THE QUESTION OF CONTROL OF INPIRATION. IT IS JUST AS IMPORTANT TO KNOW HOW TO MODIFY, CONTROL, OR SHUT OFF ENTIRELY, THE ACTION OFTHE EMOTIONS AS IT IS TO KNOW HOW TO START THEM INTO ACTION.

                  BEFORE WE GO INTO THE DISCUSSION OF EMOTIONAL CONTROL, HOWEVER, LET US TAKE INVENTORY OF THE BENEFITS AVAILABLE THROUGH INPIRATION. TO BEGIN WITH, LET US BE REMINDED THAT INPIRATION IS THE RESULT OF DESIRE, EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF ACTION, AND BASED UPON MOTIVE. INSPIRATION I A FORM OF ANIMATION WHICH CREATES ENTHUSIASM. NO NORMAL PERSON EVER GOES INTO A HEAT OF ENTHUSIASM WITHOUT A MOTIVE. IT IS OBVIOUS, THEREFORE, THAT THE BEGINNING OF ALL ENTHUSIASM IS DESIRE BASED ON MOTIVE.

                  THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF ENTHUSIASM, PASSIVE AND ACTIVE. PERHAPS IT WOULD BE MORE ACCURATE IF I  SAID THAT ENTHUSIASM MAY BE EXPRESSED IN TWO WAYS, PASSIVELY, THOUGH THE STIMULATION OF EMOTIONAL FEELING, AND ACTIVELY, BY THE EXPRESSION OF FEELING, THROUGH WORDS OR DEEDS.

                HILL : WHICH IS THE MORE BENEFICIAL OF TWO - THE ACTIVE EXPRESSION OR THE PASSIVE?

               CARNEGIE : THE ANSWER TO THAT DEPENDS UPON THE CIRCUMSTANCES. OF COURSE PASSIVE ENTHUSIASM ALWAYS PRECEDES THE EXPRESSION OF ACTIVE ENTHUSIASM, AS ONE MUST FEEL IT BEFORE HE CAN EXPRESS IT IN ANY FORM OF ACTION OR WORDS.

                THERE ARE TIMES WHEN THE EXPRESSION OF ENTHUSIASM MAY BE DETRIMENTAL TO ONE'S INTEREST, AS IT MAY INDICTE OVER-EAGERNESS, OR DISCLOSE ONE'S STATE OF MIND UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES WHEN HE DOES NOT WISH TO HAVE IT KNOWN TO OTHERS, IT IS HIGHLY IMPORTANT, THEN, THAT ONE LEARN HOW TO WITH HOLD THE EXPRESSION OF HIS FEELINGS UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT THAT ONE ACQUIRE THE ABILITY TO GIVE OPEN EXPRESSION OF HIS FEELINGS AT WILL. IN BOTH INSTANCES, THE CONTROL IS THE IMPORTANT FACTOR.

                 NOW LET US BRIEFLY DESCRIBE SOME OF THE BENEFITS OF BOTH PASSIVE AND ACTIVE ENTHUSIASM. FIRST OF ALL, LET US REMEMBER THAT ENTHUSIASM (WHICH MAY BE AN EXPRESSION OF ONE OR MOR OF THE EMOTIONS) STIMULATES THE VIBRATION OF THOUGHT AND MAKES IT MORE INTENSE, THUS STARTING THE FACULTY OF THE IMAGINATION TO WORK IN CONNECTION WITH THE MOTIVE WHICH INSPIRED THE ENTHUSIASM.

                  ENTHUSIASM GIVES TONE QUALITY TO ONE'S VOIE AND MAKES IT PLEASING AND IMPRESSIVE. A SALESMAN OR PUBLIC SPEAKER WOULD BE INEFFECTIVE WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO TURN ON HIS ENTHUSIASM AT WILL. THE SAME IS TRUE OF ONE WHO ENGAGES IN ORDINAY CONVERSATION. EVEN THE MOST PROSAIC SUBJECTS CAN BE MADE INTERESTING IF THEY ARE EXPRESSED WITH ENTHUSIASM. WITHOUT IT THE MOST INTERESTING SUBJECTS CAN BECOME BORESOME.

              ENTHUSIASM INSPIRES INITIATIVE, BOTH IN THOUGHT AND IN PHYSICAL ACTION. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR ONE TO DO WELL, THAT IN WHICH HE HAS NO FEELING OF ENTHUSIAM.

              ENTHUSIASM DISPELS PHYSICAL FATIGUE AND OVERCOMES LAZINESS. IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THERE ARE NO LAZY MEN. WHAT APPEARS TO BE A LAZY MAN IS ONE WHO IS MOVED BY NO MOTIVE OVER WHICH HE BECOMES ENTHUSIASTIC.

             ENTHUSIASM STIMULATES THE ENTIRE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND CAUSES IT TO PERFORM ITS DUTIES MORE EFFICIENTLY, INCLUDING, IN PARTICULAR, THE FUNCTION OF DIGENSTION OF FOOD. FOR THIS REASON THE MEAL HOUR SHOULD BE THE PLEASANTEST HOUR OF THE DAY, AND IT SHOULD NEVER BECOME THE OCCASION FOR SETTLING PERSONAL OR FAMILY DIFFERENCES OF OPINION, NOR SHOULD IT BECOME THE TIME FOR TH CORRECTION OF THE FAULTS OF THE CHILDREN.

               ENTHUSIASM STIMULATES THE SUBCONSCIOUS SECTION OF THE BRAIN AND PUTS IT TO WORK IN CONNECTION WITH THE MOTIVE WHICH INSPIRES ENTHUSIASM. IN FACT THERE IS NO KNOWN METHOD OF STIMULATING THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND VOLUNTARILY EXCEPT THAT OF INSPIRED FEELING.

               HERE LET US EMPHASIZE THE FACT THAT THE SUBSCONSCIOUS MIND ACTS UPON ALL FEELING, WHETHER IT IS NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE. IT WILL ACT ON THE EMOTION OF FEAR AS QUICKLY AS IT WILL ACT ON THE EMOTION OF LOVE. OR, IT WILL GO TO WORK ON THE WORRY OVER POVERTY AS QUICKLY AS IT WILL ACT ON THE FEELING OF OPULENCE. IT IS IMPORTANT, THEREFORE, TO RECOGNIZE THAT ENTHUSIASM IS THE POSITIVE EXPRESSION OF FEELING.

               ENTHUSIASM IS CONTAGIOUS! IT AFFECTS EVERYONE WITHIN ITS RANGE, A FACT THAT IS WELL KNOWN TO ALL MASTER SALESMEN. MOREOVER, ONE MAY INFLUENCE OTHERS THROUGH EITHER THE ACTIVE OR THE PASSIVE EXPRESSION OF ENTHUSIASM STIMULATES ONE'S BRAIN SO THAT IF SENDS OUT HIGHLY INTENSIFIED VIBRATIONS THAT MAY BE PICKED UP BY OTHERS.

              ENTHUSIASM DISCOURAGES ALL FORMDS OF NEGATIVE THOUGHT, AND DISPELS FEAR AND WORRY, THUS PREPARING THE MIND FOR THE EXPRESSION OF FAITH.

          ENTHUSIASM IS THE TWIN-BROTHER OF THE FACULTY OF THE WILL, IT BEING THE MAJOR SOURCE OF SUSTAINED ACTION OF THE WILL! IT IS ALSO A SUSTAINING FORCE IN CONNECTION WITH PERSISTENCE.WE MIGHT SAY, THEREFORE, THAT WILL POWER, PERSISTENCE AND ENTHUSIASM ARE TRIPLETS WHICH GIVE ONE SUSTAINED ACTION WITH A MINIMUM LOSS OF PHYSICAL ENERGY. AS A MATTER OF FACT ENTHUSIASM FATIGUE AND STATIC ENERGY INTO ACTIVE ENERGY.

                EMERSON SPOKE A DEEPER TRUTH THAN MOST PEOPLE RECOGNIZE WHEN HE SAID, NOTHING GREAT WAS EVER ACHIEVED WITHOUT ENTHUSIASM. HE MUST HAVE KNOWN THAT ENTHUSIASM GIVES QUALITY TO EVERY WORD A MAN SPEAKS, TO EVERY TASK AT WHICH HE SETS HIS HANDS.

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