THE TWO TYPES OF INSPIRATION.
THE TWO
TYPES OF INSPIRATION
It's easy to spend all day searching for inspiration. You can find
incredible videos, articles, and news stories, and email them out to all of
your friends. But the best (and longest lasting) type of inspiration comes from
applying those outside bits of motivation to your own goals.
Make no mistake: it's important to be a learner. Successful people
in all fields soak up new information. They find inspiration and motivation in
the work and success of others.
But here's the problem: consuming the success and ideas of others
is passive inspiration. Every
time you watch a video, read an article, or listen to an interview, you're
practicing passive inspiration. You might learn something, but you don't
actually have to do anything. Hearing about other people's success isn't the
same thing as creating your own.
Instead, it is through the process of active inspiration — the
act of creating things, applying new ideas to our goals, and making mistakes —
that we discover who we are and what is important to us. Furthermore, active
inspiration is what results in long—term passion and enthusiasm. Watching someone
else's success might leave you feeling excited for a few minutes, but taking
action and applying a new idea to your life will inspire you more than anything
someone else could say.
Learning and listening can help you think about things in a
different way, but creating, producing, and experimenting is what propels you
forward. Passive inspiration can give you ideas, but active inspiration will
give you momentum.
THE BEST INSPIRATION IS APPLICATION
The inspiration is not the receiving of
information. The inspiration is applying what you’ve received.
—Derek Sivers
If you come across a good idea, use it. We spend so much time
trying to find more inspirational things to consume that
it can be easy for us to forget that the best form of inspiration comes from
what we create.
It's about stumbling across a brilliant idea and bringing it to life in your work.
It's about finding a new strategy and
applying it your own goals. It's about learning a new exercise and adding it to your workout. The
application of ideas will always be more powerful than the ideas themselves.
Too often we spend our lives consuming the world around us instead
of creating it. Sure, there is some motivation in other people's ideas, but
don't forget about the power your actions have to inspire you. The best
inspiration comes from the application of ideas, not the consumption of them.
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