It's easy to spend all day searching for inspiration. You can find incredible videos, articles and news stories about the success of others.

The problem is that consuming the success and ideas of others is passive inspiration. Every time you read an article or listen to an interview, you're practicing passive inspiration. You might learn something, but you don't actually have to do anything. Hearing about other people's success isn't the same as creating your own.

Instead, it is through the process of active inspiration—the act of creating things, applying new ideas to our goals, and making mistakes—that we discover who we are and what is important to us. Furthermore, active inspiration is what results in long-term passion and enthusiasm. Watching someone else's success might leave you feeling excited for a few minutes. However, taking action and applying a new idea to your life will inspire you more than anything someone else can say.

Learning and listening can help you think about things in a different way. But creating, producing, and experimenting is what drives you forward. Passive inspiration can give you ideas, but active inspiration will give you power.

Too often we spend our lives consuming the world around us instead of creating it. And what matters is the power your actions have to inspire you. The best inspiration comes from the application of ideas, not the consumption of them.

Q22: What does the speaker say about inspiration from consuming others, ideas and success stories?
Q23: What do we learn from the passage about active inspiration?
Q24: What does the passage say passive inspiration can do?
Q25: Where does the best inspiration come from according to the passage?