“This Work Just Doesn’t Inspire Me!”

Do you really need some inspiration? Are your classes totally blah? Or could it just be you?

Inspiration is generally the result of hard work and continued
engagement with that hard work. There’s a Buddhist notion that if we find something boring, we should do it 278 times. This sort of full-on engagement will result in an inspiring revelation about whatever we once found boring.

It is a luxury to be able to "wait" for inspiration especially when we are
not working to evoke it. Think of Picasso: He wasn't “inspired” every
day, but he went to the studio every day because that was his job: to
make art.

I'm not "inspired" every day, but I come to school . . . every day.
And the glorious thing is that inspiration happens, like good luck, as
a result of design. Someone said that "good luck is the residue of
hard work." Same with inspiration.

We earn inspiration. We don't wait for it.

Okay, I've gotten all Protestant work ethic on you.