Co-operation

Recent­ly, there need­ed to be more time to blog. How­ev­er, today, I found one pas­sage in the audio­book “The Cre­ative Art” by Rick Rubin, so impres­sive that I want to share the fol­low­ing slight­ly edit­ed snippet:

Coöper­a­tion is a prac­tice. Indi­vid­ual actors and per­spec­tives come togeth­er to cre­ate a new vision. Each actor adds their own orig­i­nal point of view. Each can solo or lay­out, as best serves the work. Each time we coöper­ate, we are exposed to dif­fer­ent ways of work­ing and problem-solving.

Coöper­a­tion is not to be mis­tak­en for com­pe­ti­tion. It is not a power strug­gle to get your way or to be proven right. Com­pe­ti­tion serves the ego — coöper­a­tion sup­ports the high­est outcome.

Think of coöper­a­tion as giv­ing or get­ting a boost to see over a high wall. there is no power strug­gle in this act — you’re sim­ply find­ing the best route to a new per­spec­tive. It’s a dis­ser­vice to the project to weigh our own con­tri­bu­tion to it. Believ­ing an idea is best because it is ours is an error of inex­pe­ri­ence. The ego demands per­son­al author­ship inflat­ing itself at the expense of the project. It can reject new ideas that seem counter-intuitive and pro­tect famil­iar ones.

The best results are found when we are impar­tial and detached from our own strate­gies. We all ben­e­fit when the best idea is cho­sen., regard­less of whether it’s ours or not.

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