Sometimes, while in the very fragile state of mind, during ideation sessions you bolt out with a flash of inspiration and a great idea, someone in your team (or an rss-feed-equipped-photographic-memory troll from the deep recesses of your brain) will leap up and pull up the website of a company that is–to be blunt–already doing it. Your heart sinks a bit and you fight the urge to disparage and berate the other competitor’s offering (though some corporate leaders already somehow get away with that).
It’s times like those that I am in need of encouraging teammates and friends at the ID. And, the quote below is always nice.
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves.
They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.
-C. C. Colton
That’s right, conquest and discovery. So keep your head up, child.
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