Enthusiasm
It might just be me, but I have found that enthusiasm is contagious. Whenever I am in a group who loves what they are doing, I can’t help but feel that, yes, I love doing this as well, and I feel a surge of happiness while I work.
Take, for instance, music. For the last five years I have been participating in an ensemble contest with my cello group. This year, however, we were forced to split up and play with violins instead. The group I was placed in was so eager that I actually began to look forward to the contest instead of with dread.
Although this can be very good for me when I am stuck doing something I would rather not be doing, but sometimes it can be a problem if I am in a group who doesn’t care about the assignment.
In these cases I find myself struggling to keep my spirits up and often, I end up feeling irritated at my group mates who seem to be determined to do nothing. Sometimes it’s not even the project itself that makes them so uninterested, but rather a strong desire to just go to sleep and forget about the whole thing.
In the end, after all, the work itself is what counts and if I have a choice of choosing between eager group mates and bored ones, I would choose the eager group any day.
— Avanti Chajed