A small child experiences a storm of enthusiasm every two or three minutes. An adult, on the other hand, feels the same amount of enthusiasm two or three times a year. This phenomenon is not limited to adults. Many young people, and even many children, are affected by this lack of enthusiasm. Where does this suppression of such a universal and primordial predisposition come from? What is killing enthusiasm?

In this book, André speaks "of not stifling that enthusiasm that makes us capable of anything, that frees us from our limits, that allows us to connect with the genius that resides within us."

We want children who will grow up to be enthusiastic and happy adults. And we want it so much that we forget to show them today, by our daily example, what it means to be an enthusiastic adult. And, as André tells us, children become what we see in them and, moreover, what they see in us...