Tip: Enthusiasm, Please

No one enjoys conversing with person of low energy, yet from time to time you find yourself listless. In social life, that's a problem.

What's the solution?

William James, the great American psychologist (1842-1910), taught the method he called "acting as if."

All trained actors know how to do this. Now, with a bit of practice, you can do it.

If you are stuck in a negative emotion, you can often shake it off. Change your body - how you move, sit and stand - and act as you would like to feel.

Enthusiasm and other positive emotions are much more useful and pleasurable for everyone in an interaction.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Until next week,

Loren