For better or worse, we are not our ideas. It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking we are either the world’s biggest idiot (when something fails) or too brilliant for our own good (when we succeed).
The truth is, our ideas don’t belong to us. They are simply out there in the world, floating around waiting for someone to stumble upon them.
The goal is to bring these ideas into our world and kick them around until they are solidified.
If someone comes along and makes the idea better, bringing it one step closer to its final form, it’s not uncommon to get upset.
More often than not, we either feel personally attacked because we identify too closely with the idea, or we wish we had been the one that thought of how to improve it.
In reality, you didn’t think of the first idea either. No matter how brilliant or dumb it may be, it was never yours.

