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.

Individual Inspiration and Collective Inspiration

• Within the framework of the collective inspiration in any group, the group members must be prepared to perform as a team before seeing how they deal with inspiration.

• Collective inspiration requires great harmony among the members of the group, and its greatest form is that which embodies an entire people.

• Collective inspiration is not like a jigsaw puzzle, for which everyone contributes a piece to complete the picture. Rather, it is an interaction through which each idea provokes another idea, leading to the optimal image of inspiration in the desired subject.

• Those who are adept at collective inspiration are not necessarily adept at individual inspiration, and vice versa.

• It is possible to transfer learning skills from individual inspiration to group inspiration and vice versa, and it is possible for those who are not accustomed to using inspiration skills to learn them. The result, however, depends on the innate readiness of the person and then on how this readiness is discovered and promoted for its development.

• In collective inspiration, one person leads the organization of ideas and the conclusion to the end result. This person is not necessarily the most prolific or the best at inspiration but rather has the most outstanding leadership skills.

• Collective inspiration does not necessarily require participants to be together in one place or even familiar with each other. Ideas that are transmitted through reading or other means of receiving knowledge—among different people in different places and perhaps at different times—are some of the most prominent manifestations of collective inspiration.

• Theft is very likely to occur during collective inspiration, but genuine inspirers are not disturbed by someone stealing one of their ideas. Rather, they continue to inspire with patience, confidence, and love.

• Unless the goal of a member of any collective inspiration team is opposition for the sake of opposition to frustrate creative action, constructive disagreement is one of the best catalysts for inspirational ideas.

• The interaction of humans in building human civilization throughout history seems to be the most wonderful embodiment of the concept of collective inspiration. To read more about the author, click here.