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Originally Posted by Sliver
I don't experience enjoying somebody great at their craft as inspiring. I appreciate it. Perhaps I'm moved by it. But I'm not inspired by it. Not kidding, I don't think I have that emotion in me anymore.
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If you're not taking that thing that supposedly inspired you and actively doing something to change your behaviour in a way to bring you closer to that which inspired you, I would argue you have not been inspired. To be inspired requires you to make a change in your life.
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Well, that's the point I was trying to make. If I encounter someone being great, it usually inspires me to be better, not just in my career, but generally overall.
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If we're going to throw in anti-inspiration, I'd say I'm anti-inspired by careerists. There's no trait on planet earth a person can possess that is more off-putting to me than somebody driven and motivated by climbing the corporate ladder or just over-working for the sake of work. Put your energy - to the extent possible - into hobbies and personal relationships. Work is lame.
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Absolutely. And not my point at all. Being great at your career is one thing - and can be a form if inspiration for me - but definitely not the only form of greatness I admire and gather inspiration from.
At the same time, I wasn't trying to imply that someone needs to be great at their career for me to respect them. I couldn't care less if someone, well, couldn't care less about their career... I agree with you and hope people are fulfilled through other parts of their life.
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Originally Posted by Sliver
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If you reach greatness at something, it's at the expense of something else. I like generalists and being with generalists. As soon as somebody goes all in on one thing (politics, career, education, fishing, whatever), they lose too many other things.
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In my experience, if someone achieves greatness at something, it generally spills over into them being well-functioning in most aspects of their life. I wouldn't expect to find a gold medalist that can't manage to take out the trash or pick up their dirty socks
But frankly, that's not the point... I don't need to take a deep dive into every aspect of someone's life to determine whether or not I'll be inspired by them... If they're great at something - just one single thing - usually I'll be able to glean some inspiration from that.
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It is to my benefit some people to get laser focused on their passion because I get to enjoy the fruits of it (be it in entertainment, some new invention, whatever), but usually the people themselves are kind of sad sacks and not at all inspirational aside from their one or two main "things".
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I get what you're saying, but feel it relates more to people you want to be friends with and less to being inspired. I don't need my friends to be great and I don't need them to inspire me.
