I came across an interesting line while reading Tiago Forte's book 'Building a Second Brain'.
“You should always cite your sources and give credit where credit is due. A scientist doesn’t obscure her sources—she points to them so that others can retrace her sources.”
It has been a week since I have read this line, but it refuses to leave my head. So here I am, writing another post on something with the gears in my head turning.
When I was in school, asking for help was made to seem like a bad thing. People wouldn’t give up their notes or answer my questions and rather made me feel bad about having questions. Eventually, I grew quiet, the curious part of my brain hiding away in a corner to escape judgment and criticism. I don’t know what it is with people thinking that making someone feel bad about wanting to know something makes them seem like the bigger person.
Knowledge is an abundant asset and one that should be accessible to everyone.
I don’t understand the concept of not telling anyone something that could be useful to them just because you feel like they could go further than you. That’s a sign of insecurity.
When you are around people who are on their way to being successful or people who are already successful, you should notice how readily they provide you with information, resources, and connections to help you out in any way that they can. The ones who keep this information from you are the ones who are jealous of the progress you are making.
As the famous content creator and entrepreneur, Jun Yuh (I’m honestly a huge fan of his, and got inspired by him to start growing my brand) once said, “You will never be judged by somebody doing more than you—it will always be those doing less.” It made me realize how true that was.
Here’s one advice from me to you—take a step back and reflect on who people in your life. Think about who genuinely wants to see you succeed and who is jealous of the fact that you are out to do something that they can only dream of doing. Thought about it? Now focus on eliminating those who hinder your process.
Now, I know you cannot remove everyone that is toxic from your life. That is not how this works. The world is full of toxic people and you cannot avoid everybody to live in this happy bubble where you never have to be sad again. That’s a utopian dream that will never come true.
But that doesn’t mean that you cannot create your distance from them.
Citing resources, and telling people where you got access to a certain thing from isn’t necessarily a bad thing as long as you are doing it with a crowd that uplifts you, is willing to listen to you and gives you constructive criticism on what you are planning on doing.
Sharing of ideas is good and healthy when done with the right people. They could be your family, friends, partners, teachers, coaches or literally anyone. It doesn’t matter who they are. What matters is if your energy is safe with them or not.
Do not hesitate to cite your sources and resources, telling someone about how you are growing will never stunt your growth. It only opens doors to more opportunities eventually.
This gave me the idea to share anything I found insightful during the week to share with y’all to provide more value.
I’m no expert, and I am learning myself. So let’s help each other out in our journey of self-growth and development to reach whatever goals we have planned for this week.
One insightful thing I found this week:
Shimon Davis is one of my favourite creators on YouTube and his videos always provide tons of value on various topics related to self-growth. I hope you find value in his video as well! (P.S. None of this is sponsored or anything, I just genuinely want to help y’all out in any way that I can and I thought sharing something valuable might do the trick).
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P.S. manifesting love, excellence and success.
Love,
Yashica < 3