How To Be Inspired

I used to think I was easily inspired.

For the past several years, the explanation for this fact usually came down to my devotion to reading. There was a time when I would specifically plan out an hour in my schedule dedicated to reading. Often it came during my morning train commute to work. I would browse articles my friends had shared online. I would read the magazines that kept arriving weekly in my mailbox at home. When I started to deliver keynote talks about how to generate big ideas an...