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Why you must share your ideas
“Like writing, talking is painful because we expose our ideas for evaluation; however, like writing, talking is powerful because our ideas may, in fact, have value and require expression.”
- Novelist Min Jin Lee
How radical and terrifying it still feels to so many of us to consider that our ideas may, in fact, have value, and require expression.
If self-expression takes you outside your comfort zone, know that:
- You are not alone, and
- Every time you share an idea, you change the world.
Once an idea is out there, you never know how or where it will travel, or to what effect.
If you think, “Oh, but my ideas not powerful,” trust me when I tell you, with love, that you are, simply, wrong.
Ideas are inherently powerful, and they are especially powerful the more powerfully they are expressed.
“Oh,” you think, “there’s my out. I’m not a powerful communicator.”
Well.
First, let’s look at whether you’re a reliable judge. After all, you didn’t want to share your ideas in the first place.
