@gurugeorge said
"I've been musing about those types of occasions where you notice that you are enjoying something that you might otherwise (without the enthusiasm) consider hard work.
Perhaps that's the location of the True Will, where there's enthusiasm to be active, mobile, doing stuff, despite obstacles - where you have joy in doing *difficult *things; the sense of conquering things, of victories, little and large.
"Enthusiasm originally meant inspiration or possession by a divine afflatus or by the presence of a god." (Wikipedia)
Something carries you over the obstacles, a well or fount of energy.
People find their enthusiasm in various things of course, that's what makes the world go round.
But it's never something passive, consumerish, always active - it's the joy in work that Freud spoke of. And work means work, something difficult, something stretching, with resolution in victory or defeat.
So what are we to say of the countless millions of people who find no enthusiasm in their work? Sometimes it's a phase in a person's life, sometimes it's the sign of a deeper dis-ease, sometimes one's hand is forced by circumstances, and sometimes one is just simply lazy.
The thing is, are we to imagine that there's some divine conflux where all wills "click together"? It's more like this - everyone has a "basket" of things that they are pretty good at, and have some enthusiasm for. Few people have only one interest in life. So the idea is that, with a bit of luck, while one's primary preference might not be fulfilled, a secondary or tertiary might be, and that's still a win. We can learn and adapt. Likewise, there's a "basket" of various things that need to be done in the world, which also has a ranking (whether objective, as it sometimes is, or variously subjective, as it often is). For most healthy people, there will be a few points of intersection, or at least, there's highly likely to be."
93,
You appear to be describing, fairly accurately, the concept of 'flow'. Take a look at it - there's quite a bit of literature on the subject.
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