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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8606251.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ENTHUSIASM REFLECTIONS 860625 People are more likely to continue to be enthusiastic if they find that their enthusiasm is appreciated by others. In the absence of appreciation one's enthusiasm is likely to diminish. In the presence of criticism regarding one's enthusiasm---the enthusiasm is likely to diminish. If enthusiasm leads to excommunication from those nearest and dearest to you, such enthusiasm most certainly is likely to diminish. Some people are made uncomfortable by expressions of affection and emotion; and such people are also likely to be made uncomfortable by unrestrained enthusiasm, they are unlikely to appreciate or positively reinforce enthusiasm. In fact, such people may be deeply dedicated to restraint as regards emotional involvement in any process, for they may be dedicated exclusively to objectivity; i.e., to the exclusion of personal participation with emotion in any process. Enthusiasm entails personal participation with emotion---in that which is the focus of the enthusiasm. Scientists are thus caught in a double bind. According to the values and ideals of science defined in terms of objectivity, scientists may not be enthusiastic about their values and ideals, about their expressions of their professional interests. The most effective teachers are enthusiastic. The people most dedicated to objectivity can not by their standards be enthusiastic about their dedication, and about their expressions of their dedication. Thus the "best" scientists can not be among the "best" teachers. Because of their values and ideals scientists must participate in non-objective games of mutual self deception which lack integrity, else the lack of coherence in their values and ideals will be exposed, and their lives will lose what little meaning and significance they have by virtue of their dedication to objectivity and the successes which that dedication has occasioned. It is terrifying to consider such a turn of events objectively and without bias. Ways must be found to avoid such a tragic turn of events. The fact that an exclusive dedication to objectivity leads to contradictions and disintegration must be hidden from view---so that the value of objectivity may be sustained! We must point with enthusiasm to all the successes which objectivity has led to and convince people that our dedication is based in objective reality and merits consideration as an objective reality along with other objective realities upon which all people must agree. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================