Inspiration

[Pearls]

Who inspires you?

It could be someone you know or someone that has passed away or even a famous person.

I always say there is no such thing as "Can't" we can do what ever we want and put our minds to, when ever I feel a little unsure or down (very rare) I take inspiration off others, usually my husband.

There are people I look to and think well if you can then I bloody can too.

What about you guys?

 

[ScienceJ]

I've had many, but here's two to be going on with:

My first, from whom I picked up my belief in understanding and compromise was the head master of the Welsh primary school I went to from aged 7 to 9 (Geraint Evans). I had kicked off in class as a snotty seven year old about not wanting to learn Welsh as a language and been sent to his study, where, exasperated, he asked what I wanted to do instead (I get the impression that it was an argument he'd had before). I said "maths" and so, thanks to his intervention, I did O-level maths aged 12, rather than 16 as most did.

My second, unusually, was my maths master (Eric Ross) when I arrived at boarding school, aged 10, who refused to let me have access to the schools' one computer (a BBC model B, for those of us who remember such devices) as, being a geeky kid, I wanted to work out the universal constant, c, as Einstein had postulated in E=MC^2. He actively took the mickey out of me for the next two years whilst I pushed on to O-level maths aged 12 and O-level physics aged 13.

 

[Lovernotfighter]

My local parishes lay minister (well former lay minister he is semi retired now), I don't think theirs a man or woman in the town he hasn't helped at one point or another.

And both my grandfather both were born in to upmost poverty yet one would lead the funerary possession of a king and the other earn degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge.

 

[Admin]

I've had many, but here's two to be going on with:

My first, from whom I picked up my belief in understanding and compromise was the head master of the Welsh primary school I went to from aged 7 to 9 (Geraint Evans). I had kicked off in class as a snotty seven year old about not wanting to learn Welsh as a language and been sent to his study, where, exasperated, he asked what I wanted to do instead (I get the impression that it was an argument he'd had before). I said "maths" and so, thanks to his intervention, I did O-level maths aged 12, rather than 16 as most did.

My second, unusually, was my maths master (Eric Ross) when I arrived at boarding school, aged 10, who refused to let me have access to the schools' one computer (a BBC model B, for those of us who remember such devices) as, being a geeky kid, I wanted to work out the universal constant, c, as Einstein had postulated in E=MC^2. He actively took the mickey out of me for the next two years whilst I pushed on to O-level maths aged 12 and O-level physics aged 13.

Blimey. Unusual indeed.. amazing how we change and then look back as adults and actually realise who indeed does inspire us.

 

[ScienceJ]

Blimey. Unusual indeed.. amazing how we change and then look back as adults and actually realise who indeed does inspire us.

Thanks. I've been very fortunate to have been able to still work in the fields.