[hashim]

you can't look for inspiration. It kind of has to come to you

You need to be shaped by those events like a statue.

those events need to be powerful, significant and life changing

Sounds like you're making a lot of speculation on what you/Elon Musk think humans should be instead of what they actually are.

It's shifting the goalposts compared to your points earlier, which was that human beings could not rely on external motivation.

More importantly, without being accompanied by citations of some sort, your claims about what should be are basically religious/superstitious, and therefore meaningless to anyone else but you.