Join us as We share our personal experiences with having our work copied and offer insights into cultivating a unique, authentic, and impactful approach to your projects and business ventures. This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to foster genuine creativity and innovation while navigating the digital age’s opportunities and challenges.
As we navigate the complexities of AI and digitisation, we ponder the noticeable decline in human innovation and creativity. We explore the contentious issue of copying in professional spaces like LinkedIn and the broader business world, where the line between being inspired by others and outright plagiarism is often blurred. We discuss the nuances of copying as a learning tool and the importance of bringing your unique self into your work to ensure sustainability and genuine innovation. Moreover, we examine the pitfalls of taking shortcuts and the potential consequences of not giving credit where it’s due. We advocate for acknowledging sources of inspiration and for the authenticity that comes from a genuine connection to one’s work.
The conversation also touches on using AI tools like Chat GPT, emphasising the balance between human creativity and technological assistance to achieve impactful results.
Key Takeaways:
- In the age of AI and Automation, we have noticed a lack of human creativity due to tools like Chat GPT and the like.
- Although shortcuts can be very useful, you can often pay a price, as some things are better when you embrace the challenges and find your own way forward.
- Believing you are not good enough can often be a reason for copying others’ work.
- If you just copy others, you are not bringing your unique self into the work you are doing. If something or someone inspires you, make sure to have the humility to share why and let others know.
- If you just copy something and follow the steps and you are not connected with it, at some point in the future you will lack the energy and resilience to keep moving forward.
- If you are being inauthentic when building something and claim that it’s yours and you don’t have the right skillset, or the right experience to deliver you won’t have the impact. – You can build unique authentic and impactful products to help others and you don’t need to copy others because you feel uncomfortable.
- The need to copy others often comes from envy, jealousy, fear, being uncomfortable, I’m not good enough and social media amplifies all of those uncomfortable feelings.
