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Is inspiration influence or motivation?

Name: Is inspiration influence or motivation?
Uploaded: 2022-03-09T19:00:29+00:00
Duration: 17 s
Channel: Fouad Benyoub
Description: In this short YouTube dialogue, a writer (Speaker A) asks whether inspiration should be considered a form of influence or motivation, referencing a…

9 Mar 2022 · 0 min

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In this short YouTube dialogue, a writer (Speaker A) asks whether inspiration should be considered a form of influence or motivation, referencing a question from a Facebook user named Mary. Speaker B responds that inspiration involves both influence and motivation. He explains that influence acts as an initial trigger—people are affected by news, people, reading material, etc.—which sparks interest. However, without motivation, that initial spark fades when new influences appear. Motivation is described as the sustaining force that keeps a person engaged over time, enabling them to continue activities such as writing a book, maintaining a blog, producing videos, or conducting competitive intelligence. Speaker B also links curiosity to motivation, noting that while external influences may spark curiosity, only internal motivation drives persistent learning and analysis, even when others discourage it. The conversation emphasizes that influence alone is insufficient for lasting creative or analytical work; motivation is essential for continued effort.

a writer, as an author. I have a question from Mary in Facebook, uh, so I wonder if inspiration is a kind of influence or is it a motivation? So influence versus motivation, what is it for you?
Yeah, I, I, I would say it's both because first we get influenced, uh, and we— whatever we do and whatever, uh, where— wherever we are in life, we get influenced by influenced by many things. We can be influenced by news, by people around us, or by things we read, or, or, or something like that. So maybe it can be a trigger, that influence, but after that it's motivation to keep going over time to do something about it. Because you can be influenced and you learn, you say, oh, that's really interesting, I love it, and go to another call or move to another call. But if you want to stay there and to keep doing, let's say, whether as I said, uh, writing a book, a blog, uh, a video, I don't know, anything. You need that, that motivation to continue doing whatever you are doing, whether it's competitive intelligence or something else. Uh, and, and I really believe in that. If, if, uh, influence alone, if you are influenced, it won't help because, uh, the moment you have another influence, you will forget the first influence. Motivation will keep you going going there. And this is why, going back to curiosity, when you want to learn, uh, people will, will have to stop you from doing that, not motivate you to do that. You are so motivated in that. And sometimes I have that, that comment because people don't like looking for that information, analyzing, etc. But we love it, so, uh, we do it. And people say, how can you get motivated with that? Well, it's simply who we are.
Well, I think you, you hit a very interesting