If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Suppressing original ideas betrays both self and community.
- In plain terms
- If you hide your ideas, you betray yourself and others.
- What can you take from it?
- Share your original ideas to contribute fully.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What ideas are you keeping inside?
- How does your silence affect your community?
Another view
Sometimes withholding ideas is safer in hostile environments.
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