There is isolated creativity.

I’m sitting here writing this, technically alone.

Yes, my wife is in another room doing her thing, and the dogs are in their respective spots (Otis, probably on the recliner like the old man he is, Jack is inevitably buried under a pile of couch blankets because it’s 50 degrees and cold spring rainy as I write this), but their only awareness is that I’m up here “writing.”

I am creating, alone.

But by the time you read this, I’m not alone anymore.

It starts with a personal reflection, but then I share it.

Now the performer has an audience.

It doesn’t matter how big. Maybe before you read this I said it out loud to the dogs on one of our walks (on a non rainy day, because old man Otis doesn’t do “wet”). Maybe I told my wife about it, and in this case I did, because it was inspired by the Nancy Burger Just Press Record and my wife is a fan of Nancy.

Once you share it’s become an act of co-creation.

Maybe you read this and are saying “pffffftt", come on, dude.” OK, fine. No problem. My skin is thick (enough). That’s the risk and I am (very) comfortable taking it.

Because -

Maybe you like it. Maybe you only got this far, or maybe you never opened the email, too, but maaaayyybeee you actually like it. Maybe you said, “Yes.” Or “Hell yeah, dude.”

To those people, the room is now here to co-create.

Putting the room there with an entryway and somebody stumbling in is all it took.

I didn’t stuff the thought in a drawer.

I put it in a findable place.

And I don’t know what will happen with this one, or any other of the 2,800+ posts on this funny little Personal Archiving experiment.

Alls I really know for certain is that every connection requires co-creation in some form or another.

Nancy and I recorded a conversation. I sat and had a reflection after editing it and prepping some marketing materials. That turned into a whole new stew of thoughts that ended up, amongst other ways, in this post that you are reading.

And if you respond? If you go reflect on your own and link back? Co-creation.

Nothing has one side. And if it does, you’re humaning wrong. This is the beauty of us.

We’re only as connected as we choose to be.

Make those choices for the right reasons.