What inspires you? Are you inspired by touching stories of rags to riches? Do you leave the gym feeling inspired? Inspiration is defined as "arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity". You may have noticed that this definition has no moral undertones. The first thing that comes to mind in the instance of inspiration is, usually, something uplifting, but the truth is that you can be inspired positively or negatively. When I'm driving down the road and someone in a massive, jacked up truck cuts me off, my mind is aroused to some very creative ways to hunt down that person and kill them. My iPod is full of inspirational music, some of it christian and some of it lewd and degrading. Sadly, both of these types of music inspire me. I am going to make a concerted effort to really monitor what I allow to inspire me, because inspiration is an amazing tool for productivity.
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