inspiration soup

piece  by me done during an art gathering. 

So at my People Who Do work.....  We are reigniting inspiration and have instigated a book club.  And a digest and a general aim to keep inspired.  Damn fine I say.  Sometimes you need a *thing* to rally around.  And I do love a bit of inspiration.  And I love even more having people to SHARE that inspiration with.

I have to choose a book to read.  I am a little stuck.  Funnily enough.  I have started reading Anti Fragile by Nasim Taleb.  And its kind of ALREADY annoying me.  Much as Seth Godin did with his Icarus Project.  Sometimes its just hard to keep going through stuff which is really just a collection of good ideas. Though it has been pointed out to me by my lovely Hub who has read both, says that Nasim Taleb's book is pretty awesome and worth persisting with, whereas the Icarus project wasn't.  OK.  Maybe I ought to give it a better shot.

This book has to be something I haven't read already.  Yup.  STUCK.  I have read some really inspirational books.  But I can't choose those.

I started browsing Amazon with the aim of picking something unknown and seemingly having the right sort of title - I came across something called The Future of Work, or some such, but it just didn't appeal.

So I started mining my Evernote collection.  I keep shed loads of stuff in there with shed loads of tags.  And one called 'inspiration'

 I came across a whole piece about ideas for Foolish Projects.  Some were really really good.  And this

What would you like to learn? What are you truly hungry for? What sounds like pure joy? What do you most need to find?

AND I remembered my WORD for this year.  DELIGHT.  I want to find something that is delightful.  I am hungry for some sort of inspiration that feels and tastes delightful.  NOT worthy.  I don't want my inspiration to be a SHOULD.

I am not there yet.  But if any of you have a good idea about a great inspiring book to read I would be interested to know what it was.

OH.  actually I think I have an idea.  See, honestly its REALLY REALLY difficult to stay stuck for long.  


Thanks.