“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”—Jack London
“Too often we miss beautiful sources of inspiration, because we’re too busy thinking about other things.”
We all have days when we’re just not very inspired, when we need passion and creativity breathed into us. I know I do.
For anyone who needs a little shove, whose creativity has dried up, who needs to be moved… I humbly offer this simple guide.
While I never claim to have all the answers, nor that my way is the only way, I share here some things I’ve learned about inspiration, some tricks I’ve learned that work for me.
I’m often in need of inspiration, but in all cases I’ve found it. And it’s a wonderful thing.
Failure. Fear of it is universal, experiencing it is inevitable, and running from it is dependably routine. As a culture we can’t seem to shake the negativity of the term - even though most success stories have a shared foundation in some kind of accidental realization, wrong-footed first attempt, or outright error. Here, we pool our favorite videos and articles on the subject as a gentle reminder that our only real failure is to live life without it.
How The Happiest People In The World Spend Their Money
People can feel trapped by their careers—whether it’s because they’re earning too little, are waiting for a big payout, or have grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle. Laura Vanderkam’s new book, All the Money in the World: What the Happiest People Know About Getting and Spending, offers a new approach to finances for a modern, more flexible reality.
“I think I understand that part of getting older and better as a writer means putting away many of my more childish self-gratifying notions of Fun, etc. But Fun is still the whole point, somehow, no?”
David Foster Wallace, Feb. 21, 1962 - Sept. 12, 2008
