The Psychology of Inspiration | The Fusioneer

Capture Criteria #1: Does It Inspire Me? Inspiration is one of the most rare and precious experiences in life. It is the essential fuel for doing your best work, yet it’s impossible to call up inspiration on demand. You can Google the answer to a question, but you can’t Google a feeling. There is a way to evoke a sense of inspiration more regularly

The only way to find out is to engage wholeheartedly in the work. Without diligence, inspiration alone rarely yields work of much consequence. In some projects, inspiration can be minimal and effort takes over. In others, inspiration can strike and the effort needed to manifest its potential can’t be summoned.

The word “inspiration” means to breathe in. Breathing in must, of course, be followed by breathing out – exhalation.

Inspiratus is the creative wind, the divine breath. And to be inspired? To be inspired is to be breathed upon.