What inspires you to be better than what you think you are?

Answer 1

My son, he tells everyone I'm his hero and I keep trying to live up to that.

Answer 2

I think I'm great, but there is always room for improvement. I listen. When people say how they improved, it usually ends up being practice, but sometimes it's a different approach or technique. I try it, if it feels better or works more smoothly or is more efficient, I keep working at it. If you're talking about moral decision-making, what makes you think you're not so good? Be positive, think things through, and don't let your wish for something to be so interfere with your assessment and analysis of what is. Many people are considered great leaders and inspiring humanitarians, but they saw what was and figured out how to get it closer to what they wanted it to be. So can you.

Answer 3

Nothing.... My opinion of self is limitless. All flaws can be improved upon or erased over time. I don't require "inspiration" in any form to provide a false sense of who I am, what I can become or what can be accomplished. Nor do I need "inspiration" to dictate to me or otherwise brainwash me into believing I have limits regarding anything!

Answer 4

i am inspired to be something better, cause i feel that i need the to acquire the means so that i can try to find some sort of meaning of life.

so to answer your question i am inspired by the quest for meaning in life.

Answer 5

I think the most honest way to look at it is that people are inspired to be as good as they think they really are. When forming our opinions in others we have the tendency to depend too heavily on what they have accomplished, and in ourselves we tend to depend too heavily on what we feel we are capable of. A healthier way of viewing everyone, including ourselves, would be to weigh what the content of our character is with what we have done to display that content to the enviornment in which we live.

Answer 6

Well Silva, I personally thrive off of negative incentive. There seems to be so much of it "floating around" that I utilize this energy and transform it to my advantage. I have conditioned myself to be the "last in line" and to be patient and humble. My power is useless and is only at it's best when I come across arrogant, egotistical, superficial, two-faced, self-centered, back-stabbing, kiss-a** f**ks. The sun shines on a dog's a** every now end then and it is a dog eat dog world---this dog is hungry.

Answer 7

It's more than just a distaste for mediocrity. It's the awe in which I hold certain individuals who've gone before me. The ones who humbled themselves for others sake. The ones who loved me not only for what I was, but saw what I could be and taught by example. They have my heart. I have vowed to be as tough as I can for my own sake, and as tender as I know they'd want me to be. My mother, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Louis Stevenson, my brother, my sister, Ken Kesey, and many great unknowns have shown me this.

Answer 8

myself. I am certainly inspired by others. Yet if I cannot inspire myself to be what/who I want to than how will I be receptive to inspiration from others?

Answer 9

I have a lot of confidence in myself. I inspire myself. Very simple,really.

Answer 10

My children, they inspire me every day! They are my reason for being!

Answer 11

First was my Grandpa Fisher. He always said I could do anything I put my mind to. Then my family(especially my daughter and my fiancee)and friends. Third, believe it, or not, Rush Limbaugh who despite his detractors is a very wise man. Surprise!