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The unhinged confidence that turns amateurs into legends and meetings into hostage situations.
means A lively, eager interest or excitement about something, often intense enough to spill over onto everyone nearby.
from From the Greek 'enthousiasmos,' meaning to be possessed or inspired by a god — built from 'en' (in) and 'theos' (god). To the ancient Greeks, enthusiasm was literally having a deity inside you, the kind of divine frenzy that gripped prophets and oracles. It passed through Latin and into English around the 17th century, at first with a suspicious edge — used to mock religious fanatics claiming direct hotlines to the divine — before mellowing into the ordinary, sunnier zeal we mean today.
- holy origins
- From Greek entheos, meaning a god is inside you
- contagious
- Spreads faster than facts through any crowd
- once an insult
- Enlightenment thinkers used it to mean dangerous fanaticism
- fuel source
- Beats raw talent in nearly every long game
world cup 2022 argentina — 3 million fans celebrated in buenos aires streets after messi's world cup win
elon musk twitter acquisition — publicly stated obsessive drive to transform platform, $44 billion purchase in 2022
beatlemania 1964 — 10,000 screaming fans at jfk airport welcomed the beatles to new york