Inspire

By Amr Muneer Dahab

Inspiration is not limited to writers, artists, and creators. Inspiration is within everyone’s reach.
We all draw inspiration and inspire others, even if we don’t realize it.
This book will help you to value inspiration as a necessary and useful process for your life, and to recognize the influence of the inspiration that affects you spontaneously and the inspiration you should strive for.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665544313

Amr Muneer Dahab

www.nasdahab.com [e-mail] Amr Muneer Dahab is a Sudanese born writer, poet, essayist, literary critic and electrical engineer. He has an experience of over twenty years as a columnist in opinion journalism and is widely acknowledged for his critical essays tackling controversial cultural, literary, intellectual, and political issues worldwide, and in the Arab world specifically. His over twenty years’ experience as a columnist in opinion journalism, in addition to his academic engineering degree and relevant practical career, allowed his words to be architected in a skillfully depict reality with honesty, objectivity, and creativity. Amr is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in the United States of America. He has more than twenty five books published in Arabic, and his book “Damn the Novel” had been translated into English and published in 2018. Amr wrote in English “Facing Troublemakers”, “You Are Always Good to Go”, “Life Painkillers”, “Cuisine”, “Reading”, “Pocket”, “Inspire”, and “Criticizing”; they were published in 2020 and 2021. Amr’s collection of poems “Stubborn in Love” has been translated into English and published in 2021.

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Published by AuthorHouse  11/10/2021

ISBN: 978-1-6655-4422-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6655-4431-3 (e)

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To everyone who has inspired me and to

everyone I might have inspired, regardless of

the manner or extent of the inspiration.

CONTENTS

Preface

Inspiration, Not Imitation

Fields Of Inspiration

Who Can Inspire You?

Whom Should You Inspire?

Rich Sources Of Inspiration

Spontaneous Inspiration Versus Imposed Inspiration

Practical Inspiration And Emotional Inspiration

Individual Inspiration And Collective Inspiration

Inspiration Through Rejection

Creativity And Inspiration

Obstacles To Inspiration

Learning And Teaching Inspiration

Inspiration And Age

Inspiration And Culture

Inspiration As Treatment

Inspiration Validity Date

Inspiration And The Impossible

How Does Inspiration Change Your Life?

PREFACE

Inspiration is not limited to writers, artists, and creators. Inspiration is within everyone’s reach.

We all draw inspiration and inspire others, even if we don’t realize it.

This book will help you to value inspiration as a necessary and useful process for your life, and to recognize the influence of the inspiration that affects you spontaneously (and you do not notice it directly) and the inspiration you should strive for.

1

INSPIRATION, NOT IMITATION

40328.png Imitation is almost a mechanical process. Inspiration is creativity that includes a deep spiritual dimension.

40328.png Imitation is like making a copy of a paper without understanding its content. Inspiration is like reading a paper, absorbing its content, and thinking about how you can benefit from it.

40328.png Slow down a bit before you start imitating. You can get more useful and sustainable results when you think about how you can tailor any outcome to your