The Hypocrisy of Ideas

No one owns an idea. We can own our perception of an idea, but not the idea itself. By our definition an idea is an epaphanic awareness of the alignment of known facts and life experiences that alters ones perspective on reality. The realization of an idea leads one into creative thinking which can then lead to the commercialization of their own point of view. You may think we’re way off base but in doing so you’re actually proving our point. In this case “idea” is the idea and we can both have different perspectives of what that is but it in no way changes that an idea is just an idea until someone does something with it. What is ultimately done will be a reflection of our own understanding and life experiences. For example, a wheel is just a wheel and no matter how you choose to utilize that wheel it will remain a wheel. You may see the wheel as a way to help you harvest crops faster; whereas I may see it as a way to prove I can finish a quarter mile faster. Either way we see it, the wheel is still a wheel. (If you’re seeing a correlation between application and perspective you should.)

The point to all of this is that many people don’t feel comfortable with Coworking because of how closely people work together and how they are encourage to freely trade ideas amongst each other. “They” have fears that people may steal their ideas. We obviously don’t believe that but not just because of the reason I’ve already explained. The true reason is that we believe in open collaboration. No two people will see a problem or opportunity the same so why not work together to optimize the results? Coworking is one of a million ways to find higher quality solutions cheaper and faster.

I’ll leave you with a couple quotes:

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives and mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

- Oscar Wilde

“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”

- Charles Darwin