#230: Don’t own ideas

Here’s a question. Can you own an idea?

Before you answer, consider the number of people you interact with daily, the clouds of information on the Internet and the number of books published to date (who knows; more than 70 million).

So, where does your latest idea really come from? Something you heard as a kid? Something you read yesterday?

Once you have thought a thought it is ‘out there’ beyond your control, even before you have expressed it aloud. As you know, people pick up on thoughts. According to quantum physics, it’s simply the interconnectedness of all things.

That’s why you cannot own ideas. You just don’t know where they came from nor where they are going next.

And here’s why you should not lock up your ideas. The more you share ideas, the more they come back to you, much improved. Like love, some things are simply not diminished when given away.



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