Rebecca Traister

During childbearing years, changing jobs - even for a fundamentally better gig - can be a very bad idea. Those prime childbearing years - mid-twenties to early forties - overlap precisely with prime professional years. This is when employees are most attractive to new employers, when they should be able to zip up ladders with the most alacrity.

American Author

Chiwetel Ejiofor

There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.

British Actor

Elias James Corey

In the spring of 1959, I received an offer of a professorship at Harvard, which I accepted with alacrity since I wanted to be near my family and since the chemistry department at Harvard was unsurpassed.

American Scientist

Alacrity has a positive connotation, suggesting enthusiasm and a proactive attitude.

Positive Tone

Use 'alacrity' when you want to emphasize a swift, eager response to a request or opportunity.

Prompt Response

'Alacrity' refers to mental quickness and liveliness, not necessarily physical speed.

Not Physical Speed

 that we don't respond to it with quite as much alacrity. And thirdly, we need to have some humility. We need to begin from the position that our knowledge, our power, our legitimacy is limited. This doesn't mean