Have you ever been copied? Or thought you were?
But yes! Surely!
Did you know that you probably already copied yourself too? Now, I know too well that you are going to tell me: "Me NO! NEVER!
But yes, I swear! You have probably already copied and surely without realizing it !
So you too are part of the league of super villains: the naughty little copycats!
Okay, okay, I'll calm down! I'm telling you this in a humorous tone, but it's most likely true. Unless you're not using your brain! Let me start again:
The flash of genius
How many times have you had a “flare of genius”? A flash of genius that eventually found itself be a super banal idea. After talking about it with some of your friends and family members, you discovered that the concept already existed? You who thought you were great for this incredible idea.
I'm not going to tell you anything new by telling you that since your birth, you have learned to reproduce what you saw. Whether it was one of your parents who opened their mouth to show you how to spoon out puree when you were a baby. Or when your parent used nasty words after she stubbed her little toe on the corner of a piece of furniture. Those nasty words you used to happily repeat while going grocery shopping or in front of family.
Cryptomnesia
This brings me to talk to you about cryptomnesia. Cryptomnesia is by definition the “ Unconscious memorization of an event, which only reappears in consciousness on the occasion of a particular state of consciousness ”.
So, cryptomnesia can be summed up as a “ psychic process in which a spontaneous creative energy causes lost memories to reappear in a defined and perfectly clear way. ”
Obviously, we are far, even very far, from this girl who copies all your publications, practically word for word to promote the products... that she also plagiarized from you.
What I'm getting at is that the cryptomnesia is like a form of “flashing of genius”. You know, those flashes of genius that shape our daily lives, encourage our creativity and spontaneity?
So it may very well be that your "flash of genius" is just an idea, spontaneously copied from someone else, without you realizing it, by your brain which momentarily remembers something incredible.
The best part about it is that when you bed a little more about the subject, we discovers that “ The individual sincerely believes that he is the author of the idea, and even, sometimes, that he is a visionary when he is simply borrowing it from another person or a group. A biased memory therefore intrudes at the start of this mechanism of thought. “
Faintness...
Which means that this evil person from hell who is copying you without qualms in order to steal your soul and all your future profits and maybe just someone who was struck by a “flare of genius” while being the victim of a… “ cryptosouvenir ” (?!) (I think I'm making up a word here.)
So, if one day you realize that someone seems to be copying your business, your creations or your ideas, first try to remember yourself, where the idea came from and then, before getting on your high horse and putting all the superheroes on the planet on this person's case, to talk to them gently about it.
Then, maybe even tell him about this article?
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Last update: 2023-01-07
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Source 1: https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/cryptomn%C3%A9sie/20872
Source 2: https://www.lalanguefrancaise.com/dictionnaire/definition/cryptomnesie
Source 3: https://www.chosesasavoir.com/quest-ce-que-la-cryptomnesie/