These are excerpts from the author’s book “Deep,” which contains eight of his small books published in the form of Wisdom Literature covering different aspects of life: Facing troublemakers, dealing with pain, personal financial issues, gastronomy, reading, criticizing, inspiring, and feeling always good to go.

Series 7: Inspire.

Learning and Teaching Inspiration

• Inspiration often comes suddenly, but that does not mean people should sit with folded hands, waiting for inspiration to fall on them from the sky. Deep thinking and reflection are the first steps in learning how to invoke inspiration.

• Inspiration becomes smoother through training and practice, but it never yields to the complete control of the creators, no matter how talented, skillful, or experienced they are.

• When you teach a few techniques for invoking inspiration, it may help people for a limited time, fleetingly. Make sure that you convey your own experiences—not what you have read—of inspiration to others with sincerity and love so that the inspiration becomes an experience for them that will last forever.

• While teaching or talking about inspiration with any group, do not hesitate to transfer your experience to the audience, regardless of their ages and categories. Inspiration does not recognize age or class. Focus on delivery rather than on content that is often accessible to everyone.

• In inspiration training, it is important that the mentor does not let the students’ topic of interest distract him or her from opening the students’ horizons to inspiration. The mentor should use inspiration’s provoking experiences at all possible levels.

• The concept of leading by example is the basis of inspiration training. It is difficult to influence trainees if they do not feel that inspiration is continuously manifested in the mentor’s attitude.

• Teaching inspiration does not mean offering a course with a few practical exercises and an exam at the end of the course. The main purpose of inspiration training is not for students to excel in the course or to complete a specific practical task successfully; rather, they should remain inspired continuously in their lives. However, the inspiration training sessions must be a continuous state of embodying the inspiration by the trainer and the trainees.

• The ingenuity of teaching inspiration is manifested in the trainer’s skill in guiding their students to the most appropriate models of inspiration for each of them, specifically.

• Rather than teaching inspiration, work on inspiring inspiration.

• Life is the first teacher of inspiration, for which we do not directly pay. Look around you wherever you are, and you will find an inspiration source. All you need to take advantage of that source is deliberation and a deep desire for inspiration.

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Dahab’s books are available on Goodreads and Booktasters are promoting them. This is the link to a trailer on “Damn the Novel,” his first book translated into English.