To answer your question with as few words as possible, "ATTITUDE" The way you approach your work, your day, your co-workers, your boss. Is made either stronger or weaker by the attitude you hold in the way you walk, talk, look, dress and act. Those five characteristics, rolled into one state of mind, determines, more than anything else, an individual's success in ANY work situation.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.