{"id":5399,"date":"2011-12-20T14:10:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T18:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=5399"},"modified":"2021-02-04T13:03:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T18:03:16","slug":"idea-hoarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2011\/12\/20\/idea-hoarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Idea Hoarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5404\" title=\"giveTake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/giveTake.jpg\" alt=\"giveTake\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/giveTake.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/giveTake-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I used to be afraid of people stealing my ideas. I saw my ideas, the thoughts in my head, as something physical that someone could take from me.<\/p>\n<p>I was terrified to share them. I was certain that if they weren&#8217;t stolen, then they would surely be scorned.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, it seemed, my ideas were not safe in the external world.<\/p>\n<h3>Everything is essentially an idea<\/h3>\n<p>Without knowing it, I&#8217;ve been sharing my ideas all along. In giving of my wealth, in doing what brings me joy, I had been extending my ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing my thoughts hasn&#8217;t diminished or killed them as I thought it would. Rather, it has allowed me to meet people who believed in my ideas, and the stronger they have grown.<\/p>\n<h3>To defend is to be attacked<\/h3>\n<p>By thinking I needed to protect my ideas, I was constraining them. In believing that they could be abused or stolen, I was encouraging them to be.<\/p>\n<p>I was defending against something that wasn&#8217;t real. Always ready for the next attack. I was treating my ideas as something outside me, beyond my control.<\/p>\n<h3>I am the source of my ideas<\/h3>\n<p>They can not be controlled or taken by another.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts never really leave their source. In trusting this, I am freer to extend them.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I now have the proof I need, for I see that in giving of my ideas, my self worth has amplified and a wealthly life is growing.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: that guy named rob<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5404\" title=\"giveTake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/giveTake.jpg\" alt=\"giveTake\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/giveTake.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/giveTake-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I used to be afraid of people stealing my ideas. I saw my ideas, the thoughts in my head, as something physical that someone could take from me.<\/p>\n<p>I was terrified to share them. I was certain that if they weren&#8217;t stolen, then they would surely be scorned.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, it seemed, my ideas were not safe in the external world.<\/p>\n<h3>Everything is essentially an idea<\/h3>\n<p>Without knowing it, I&#8217;ve been sharing my ideas all along. In giving of my wealth, in doing what brings me joy, I had been extending my ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing my thoughts hasn&#8217;t diminished or killed them as I thought it would. Rather, it has allowed me to meet people who believed in my ideas, and the stronger they have grown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,32,30,31],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing","tag-ideas","tag-sharing","tag-theft","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}