Looking at lectures, videos, books, biographies etc of people who inspire me. I'm not a professional mathematician but people like Ramanujan, Gauss, Euler, Grot

Looking at lectures, videos, books, biographies etc of people who inspire me. I'm not a professional mathematician but people like Ramanujan, Gauss, Euler, Grothendieck, Langlands, Andre Weil, Terry Tao, Lang, Serre, Harish-Chandra, etc. I come back to their works thinking one day I'll jump into doing something more original than my day-to-day job, may be one day I'll bite the bullet. Musicians, mostly classical, in western: Rachmaninoff, Wagner, Bach, Brahms, Liszt, and the musicians that render them Richter, Horowitz, Yo Yo Ma, etc. Also a lot of indian classical as well. Bhimsen Joshi, Salamat Ali Khan, Nikhil Banerjee, Ali Akbar Khan. I know this isn't a music thread but musicians do inspire me and keep me coming back to their works. Those folks keep me aware that something extraordinary is possible and they inspire me to strive for it. I delude myself into thinking one day I'll have a shot at reaching a tiny sliver of their potential..