From the course: Creativity: Generate Ideas in Greater Quantity and Quality
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Inspiration vs. motivation
From the course: Creativity: Generate Ideas in Greater Quantity and Quality
Inspiration vs. motivation
- Let's explore the obstacles that can derail our pursuit of developing positive creative habits in our lives. There's a subtle difference between inspiration and motivation. Inspiration has historically been an elusive conceptual state, one that creatives constantly pursue and often cite as the reason for their best creative efforts and most imaginative work. It's absence has also served as a convenient scapegoat for expected on imaginative ideas. It's natural to believe that creativity feeds off of inspiration because it's true. But I would argue, that the more habitual cause behind our most unremarkable solutions isn't the lack of inspiration, but the absence of motivation. The key to overcoming either is understanding the difference. Inspiration is defined as the process of being mentally stimulated to do something especially something creative. It's derived from a Middle English term translated as…
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