creating ideas that spread

This concept has been swirling around in my brain for a while...
When you work closely with someone on projects,
what is your idea, what is someone else's,
what came out of your reading and research,
what should be credited appropriately?

I love this concept of creating ideas that enrich, connect and improve all us.

When your ideas get stolen

A few meditations:

Good for you. Isn't it better that your ideas are worth stealing? What would happen if you worked all that time, created that book or that movie or that concept and no one wanted to riff on it, expand it or run with it? Would that be better?

You're not going to run out of ideas. In fact, the more people grab your ideas and make magic with them, the more of a vacuum is sitting in your outbox, which means you will prompted to come up with even more ideas, right?

Ideas that spread win. They enrich our culture, create connection and improve our lives. Isn't that why you created your idea in the first place?

The goal isn't credit. The goal is change.

via {seth godin}