Inspire

Ashi Gautam
5 min readDec 26, 2020

We all familiar with two words Inspiration and Motivation. The experience of motivation from YouTube videos in which whole things is all about you can do anything then you feel like today is the day after that all things gonna change, my life gonna change, why I didn’t start it for past few months, I wish I would watch this video before. Let’s start studying and today I will end

the whole Unit of this subject, (a few minutes later) I think I have to take a break for some time (a few hours later) let’s continue from tomorrow. The story of every instant motivated video, the whole mechanism of that motivation is to show you how much potential you have to do your work which you delay for the past few days or months. Many misunderstood inspiration from motivation. Motivation is temporary and Inspiration is not temporary.

As you can see, if anybody explains your potential to you, it motivates you for some time because you only got to know that you can do anything as you wish for your life, but still, you don’t know how you will do it. That’s why motivation does not work as we except. The thing is you do not have a method which gives you a practical and implementable way to reach your goal, find that person who already reached theirs. That person has some useful stuff about the goal you want to achieve, as he shares his views on how he did the same thing and he was also facing the same problems but he was going through all and completes their goal than you got to know how you can also surpass all the problem, as you understand the particular points from the person that should be changed it’s called inspiration. In this case, now you knew the executable and realistic way of achieving your goal.

True Life Stories of Inspire

1. Charis Gardner

He is none other than Chris Gardner, the C.E.O and founder of Christopher Gardner International Holdings — with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Chicago. His life was portrayed in a Hollywood film — The Pursuit of Happyness — which not only went on to be a blockbuster but was also loved by audiences worldwide.

His choice of opting out of a medical career and because he cheated on his wife. Not only did he fail miserably at his job as a medical equipment salesman, but his girlfriend also deserted him due to his deteriorating financial conditions. Homeless, he stayed with his son at motels, parks, airports and once even in a public toilet. He toiled incessantly at a brokerage firm during the daytime, stood in long queues to sleep under a roof at nigh

After passing the licensing exam in 1982, he became a full-time employee of Dean Witter. He established his brage firm Gardner Rich & Co. in 1987, in which he owns 75% of the stock. He sold a small stake in Gardener Rich in 2006 in a multi-million dollar deal.

2. Bear Grylls

At 23, he was at the time among the youngest people to have achieved this feat. This is the inspirational story of the amazing Bear Grylls. He is known to the world as a television presenter for the Discovery Channel, with his show called Man Vs. Wild.

After leaving school, he briefly considered joining the Indian Army and hiked in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim and West Bengal. Eventually, he joined the Territorial Army and, after passing selection, served as a reservist with the SAS in 21 SAS Regiment (Artists) (Reserve), for three years until 1997.

In 1996, he suffered a free-fall parachuting accident in Zambia. His canopy ripped at 16,000 ft, partially opening, causing him to fall and land on his parachute pack on his back, which partially crushed three vertebrae. He later said: “I should have cut the main parachute and gone to the reserve but thought there was time to resolve the problem”. According to his surgeon, he came “within a whisker” of being paralyzed for life and at first it was questionable whether he would ever walk again. He spent the next 12 months in and out of military rehabilitation.

In a showcase of what pure determination and hard work can do, on 16 May 1998, he achieved his childhood dream climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, 18 months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting accident.

3. Brian Acton

In the middle of 2009, he was the software engineer that no one wanted to hire. Despite a dozen years of experience at Yahoo and Apple Computer, he got turned down by two of the internet’s most upcoming companies at the time. First Twitter, and then Facebook.

When he could not find any other company that would hire him, he teamed up with another Yahoo alum, Jan Koum, and built the application that has not only dominated cloud-based messaging but is also used all over the world. Yes, this person is none other than Brian Acton, who developed Whatsapp. Whatsapp was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for USD 19 billion USD in cash and stock, making Acton’s net worth around $3.8 billion.

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Ashi Gautam
Ashi Gautam

Written by Ashi Gautam

AI Enthusiast | AI Automation | Business Process Management | Co-Founder and CEO of Nexus Virtu

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