English with Kirsty – episode 328
Don’t abandon your ideas before they have the chance to grow
You can listen to episode 328 here:
These solo episodes are intended to be shorter – with a thought, a question, or something practical to try.
It started with a conversation about abandoning ideas and a post about animals!
Sometimes I work with people who have no idea what to share on social media. Other times I hear from people who don’t get anywhere with their ideas, because they abandon or reject them before they’ve really had chance to grow.
What are some of the reasons for why we do this?
What happens if we don’t do anything, or if we let ideas be generated for us?
What happens if we don’t listen to that little voice that says our ideas aren’t interesting, original, or smart enough?
AI prompts can give us quick answers, but if we grow to rely on them, what do we lose in terms of the creative process? In terms of seeing how the different parts of our idea or story fit together, or developing our own unique angle or perspective?
My LinkedIn post with the donkey picture in which I asked what people want to be known for as well as their work revealed all kinds of things about people that I wasn’t aware of before. And yet, there was a part of me that hesitated about sending this little idea out into the world.
If we don’t want to see as much generic, AI-generated content, then we need to create something different. Some of this means being vulnarable enough to tell our own stories, share our own thoughts, or maybe just start by not rejecting ideas for posts if we can’t imagine the finished piece of content straight away. Sometimes sitting with the questsions helps us find better answers!
Have you got a thought / experience / learning take-away or question that you’ve been thinking about sharing?
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