Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work.
Chuck Close, legendary photorealist artist
Close continued, “the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will — through work — bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great ‘art idea.’ And the belief that process, in a sense, is liberating and that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every day.”
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Jeff Haden, author of The Motivation Myth, argues that if you wait for motivation to inspire you, nothing will change in your career or life. He writes, 'There is only one recipe for gaining motivation: success... Specifically, the dopamine hits we get when we observe ourselves making progress.'
John Mayer, another prolific songwriter, explains that he often picks up the guitar and starts babbling. He just talks nonsense, singing whatever line comes to mind until he stumbles onto one or two that actually feel worthwhile. Then, he builds a song around them.
In this manner, virtually anyone can write a song or book, come up with a solid business idea, or create anything you can imagine.
You just have to do the work.
He might be a pattern for someone to move on. Probably that is true to him. But not all have the same attitude. Man success in life depends more on the way they brought up & family’s livelihood during the growing up period. Most likely most of the successful people belongs to the lower class having experienced difficulties of ups & down.
My family is not well to do. But through my Mom’s encouragement to focus on our studies so we can have a bright future & follow our dreams. The reasons we siblings studied hard though we don’t belong to honorees but on scholarship grants, we earned our Bachelor degrees. We we’re not hinder of what our hobbies are then, we explore visiting mountains & rivers with our cousins, play, climb the trees spending sitting on the hard branch talking. I learned how to bike, swim & horseback riding. We had a lot of fun. As we grow older, time has change. Some have worked & migrated to other countries.
Yet, we continue to evolved ourselves.
One is not like the other as the saying goes same thing we are as humans.
Inspiration most comes along when one is suffering difficulties in life. Sometimes someone at work or at the coffee shop we meet. This happened to some of my friends. But yours truly inspiration is the journey of humans life. Curiosity & queries. Watching documentaries from archeology from the ancient times, book materials answered some queries. Still I continue to inspired myself to the world we live in.
Thanks Bruce. Your writings helps filling the gap of my unknown facts. More power to U.😇