Last update: December 09, 2016
It happened to everyone. Suddenly we get an idea that seems good to us or we find the solution to a job issue, for example, but someone steals it from us. It is too late to claim paternity: it has been stolen from us and we feel frustrated.
To be realistic, on the other hand, it is possible that we did the same thing with someone else. This is completely normal, even if it doesn't seem justified or right. But this is it, ideas fly, they are free once they are spoken aloud and some mind intercepts them. In fact, we are not good at remembering sources, we are better at remembering ideas.
However, if something like this happens to you, remember one thing: they can steal your idea, but never your talent or ingenuity.
Talent is personal
Talent is unique, personal and non-transferable. It is a powerful weapon that speaks to ourselves and how we enter the world. It is not something that can be borrowed or copied. Talent is natural and only asks to be empowered to give better results.
If you think you have no talent, you are mistaken: surely there is something that allows you to exploit your inner abilities. You just need to enthusiastically find it and then work on it. Thus will arise new ideas, personal creations or interesting reflections that others can steal from you, but never conceive as you did.
Spend a lot of time on your talent and you will find that you will find the place where you can show what you are worth. It is never too late, it is never too difficult and it is not an impossible goal to achieve. You just need to believe in yourself and have faith in your own possibilities and aptitudes.
It is good to feed on the ideas of others
Contrary to what it seems when an idea is stolen from us, sharing it is not really that bad. Sure, plagiarism or copying hurt, but the transmission of concepts from one mind to another feeds us as people. Ultimately, it is a way to spread knowledge.
Ideas are like living beings. They are born, grow, proliferate, encounter other ideas and eventually die.
Bernard Werber
What good do we need to have ideas if we can't see them grow? To see how they come about, we have to feed them and give them life until they become something else, otherwise they die. If these are our ideas, it is right that this comes from us, even if the purpose is to proliferate among others. There is nothing wrong with being born in us and growing in others.
Throughout history, in fact, past generations have always profited from the knowledge and ideas of previous generations. The comforts we enjoy today are due to what they shared with wisdom and talent. For this reason, it is good to respect a colleague's idea and at the same time help him develop it without depriving him of the merit he deserves.
Talent takes effort
As we already told you at the beginning of the article, talent is natural, but it needs to be trained. In fact, if you want to enhance it in some way, you need to know how to manage it correctly: focus on the place where you can develop it and have the right attitude to do it.
Nobody can steal our talent once we find it. If we have talent, we will find a way to show it even at work, even if someone were to steal our ideas, reflections or projects. Talent is something that is noticeable when it is exploited to the maximum.
