I’m on team Sliver here.
I’m not sure I even understand the concept of inspiration.
The basic concept is you see someone else struggle and overcome something that makes your struggles look trivial so you do better at something else.
The possible reasons are you living in such a privileged world that you never bothered to look out side of or a wired coping method to convince yourselves your serious problems aren’t that bad or you over exaggerate the problems in your world.
In any of these circumstances a person really needs to figure out what’s wrong with their world view as these brief moments of clarity aren’t going to fix the underlying issue. It also seems gross to watch other sufferings and use it while not helping them.
The other example is the Olympian who struggled to be the best in their field.
Is someone who was gifted working really hard, sometimes in an unhealthy manner, and achieving success inspiring? What does that inspire you to do? People working hard to achieve success is a generic part of life.
Then you have the Everest Climbers who put themselves at a 10% risk of death for a story. And we are supposed to find that level of poor judgment inspiring?
So I don’t get it. You evaluate what you want and take steps to do it
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