I am back from bar and sober down
If talking for chemistry inspirations, i personally inspirated most from mechanism reactions and especially in so changing the reaction conditions, used catalist or new functional reagents in finding knew synthetic path to my home door
Stop with joking.. In serious yes reading, listening and writing with passion tones of lectures in all chemistry and related subject is from most an impotance to become good chemist being the theory gray and green the tree of the life
Then it stand time for specialization courses when all the seems unusefull subjects like math or related become usefull too but if you are true chemist by the time you'll continue with writing long synthesis on the back to your note book with no care about math and the people who borned good mathematicians (i respect them too). Its strange i am good chemist-engineer but awfull mathematician - of course sense of humour from most an importance in all
) Gentlemens, keep being happy and always inspired from chemistry, hm and music too !