I read and watch information a lot. There are few times, very few special times where I see someone explain a way they behave or think that wants to make me cry. I want to cry because they explain me, they explain something I do (That they also do) in such a way it touches me deeply because they could not have explained it any better. They explain it perfectly.

Isaac Mizrahi is an American Fashion Designer who influences/affects your life more than you know. He does high end designs for TV (many things you might have seen) and also designs custom merchandise for Target ( I have an Isaac Mizrahi designed cups and plates from Target maybe you have some other things too). He was invited to TED and gave a presentation which blew me away.

He talked about inspiration. This is one thing I have tried to master, to remain inspired at all times. I have found inspiration to be very fleeting. It comes and goes randomly, but it feels really great when you feel inspired, you see things you know are exclusive, groundbreaking and game changing but how do you keep this mindset? how do you make inspiration stay? How do you make it come when you want it to? A good friend of mine calls it tapping into the universal collective. He describes creativity/inspiration as a stream of answers to all the worlds questions flowing unseen above our heads and once in a while we are granted connection to that stream just for a few seconds (like an erratic internet connection) and then you SEE the answer you have been looking for. As a web programmer and blogger/writer I seek inspiration all the time. I am always looking for that great new Idea, that perfect sentence to end my post, that color to make the most beautiful site.

In his presentation he explained why I sleep so little but still feel fulfilled. Why I always seek to work in colorful places (The Idea Factory and Javas at RIT). How I find answers in mistakes or tricks of the eye. Why I watch so many TV shows and why repetition makes me bored too quickly. The scary thing was that he was describing himself but he explained me in the process. This video is more about the way he works rather than explaining the concept of inspiration but I advice anyone who seeks inspiration on a regular basis for whatever they do to spend a little time looking at this video. The only thing he does that I don’t do for inspiration is cook…maybe I should get on that.

Steve Job explained inspiration and creativity best when he said: Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.

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