My parents inspire me by offering new perspectives to things that I cannot see or bother seeing.
For example, when I was a child, my father told me to think of math as a puzzle waiting to be solved. With every learned equation and tool, we could get a step further to solving the puzzle. In addition, he told me to enjoy the thrill of solving a math problem and to enjoy the creations that previous mathematicians have made to make predicting much easier. With that, my father, having practiced so much math in his younger years (and still uses them), would often tell me how the equations we see became that way—even if I wasn’t as interested as he was.
