“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” ― Marie Curie
Quora Question: When you see a coin on the ground, do you pick it up or leave it there?
While I was on my morning run this morning, I saw a penny laying on the ground and I initially ran over it without picking it up. I usually pick up pennies and I don’t worry about if it is face up or not. I don’t believe in the superstition about heads or tails. I had a nagging feeling to turn around and pick it up and that is what I did.
I didn’t always stop to pick up pennies until I relieved it’s a form of currency no matter what. I have heard some people say that the penny is worthless. I don’t believe that’s necessarily true. There are 100 pennies in one dollar and 100,000 pennies in 1,000 dollars. The key is to remember that each penny adds up to something. It always comes down to your perception of what equates to value.
Here is another way to look at this…
Over the past few years, I have come to believe that each one of us has a message, a gift, or an experience to share with the world. Our ideas are the sparks that lead us on the path of discovery. If you believe you have nothing to offer, you have no desire to explore what’s hidden deep down inside of you. If you do believe you have something of value to offer, we put in effort to discover what it is. We look for ways to share that message or story once we find it. Some of create businesses. Some of us write books or publish blogs. Some of us hop on podcasts or other social media channels because we want our messages and ideas out there in the world.
So where am I going with this…
Our ideas are the pennies that add value to the collective whole. Think about YouTube, if there was only one channel on the whole platform, it wouldn’t be one of the most searched platforms for entertainment or educational tools. It wouldn’t be considered “YouTube University” for sure! YouTube doesn’t add content, it manages the content that we provide and makes a nice profit from it. The ideas of the individuals who upload to the platform is what makes YouTube valuable! In other words, there are more than 100,000,000,000 ideas (pennies) that help pull in the 1.8 billion subscribers of YouTube.
Every penny has a value, just as every person matters and we all add to the collective whole. When we can see the value in each of our experiences, we will stop leaving the pennies on the ground, and or ideas un-explored. Each of our experiences in life provide ideas and lessons that the world can use. These ideas and beliefs help shape who you are and when we stop, collect them, and add them up, we may just realize how valuable we are because of them.
Quote Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag?utf8=✓&id=ideas
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