Douglas Clark
-Head writer, The Inspiration Engine
Closely linked to Creativity is the Inspiration necessary to create. I've often wondered 'where' Inspiration comes from. To be totally honest, Inspiration comes from everywhere, anywhere and nowhere. At first this may seem like a cryptic and convoluted non-answer, but bear with me. Life is really just a person's perspective. It's the sum of all their experiences, knowledge, intellect, hopes, dreams, fears and relationships, to both others and their environment. People see life through their own perspective, not Bob's, or Jim's, or Sally's. If one were to remain isolated in their comfort zone, that comfort zone would shrink and they would be less and less likely to try new things, keep an open mind about different perspectives and generally become closed off.
This is where inspiration does NOT live. Inspiration is closely linked to experience, variation and emotional variance. If you become exposed to more and more things, your understanding increases and the ability to see things from differing points of view grows. The possibilities of 'what if' become stronger and it leads you to think in new ways. Once the power of 'new' takes hold, Inspiration becomes easier. All of the things in your life now take on the possibility of inspiring a new thought or idea, dream or scheme.
Try this: Go into a room you have been in many times. Look around. If it all looks the same change your perspective. Stand on the chair and look down. Climb up on the counter and look around (please be careful). It's the same room, but you're looking at it from a totally different and probably new perspective. You changed your perspective of that room and your view of it changed too. Keep that feeling alive and inspiration will come.
I believe in you. It can happen. Just change your perspective.
Thanks for reading.
-Head writer, The Inspiration Engine
Closely linked to Creativity is the Inspiration necessary to create. I've often wondered 'where' Inspiration comes from. To be totally honest, Inspiration comes from everywhere, anywhere and nowhere. At first this may seem like a cryptic and convoluted non-answer, but bear with me. Life is really just a person's perspective. It's the sum of all their experiences, knowledge, intellect, hopes, dreams, fears and relationships, to both others and their environment. People see life through their own perspective, not Bob's, or Jim's, or Sally's. If one were to remain isolated in their comfort zone, that comfort zone would shrink and they would be less and less likely to try new things, keep an open mind about different perspectives and generally become closed off.
This is where inspiration does NOT live. Inspiration is closely linked to experience, variation and emotional variance. If you become exposed to more and more things, your understanding increases and the ability to see things from differing points of view grows. The possibilities of 'what if' become stronger and it leads you to think in new ways. Once the power of 'new' takes hold, Inspiration becomes easier. All of the things in your life now take on the possibility of inspiring a new thought or idea, dream or scheme.
Try this: Go into a room you have been in many times. Look around. If it all looks the same change your perspective. Stand on the chair and look down. Climb up on the counter and look around (please be careful). It's the same room, but you're looking at it from a totally different and probably new perspective. You changed your perspective of that room and your view of it changed too. Keep that feeling alive and inspiration will come.
I believe in you. It can happen. Just change your perspective.
Thanks for reading.
