First, we humans generally like to share and we like to create. Look no further than our love of sharing on social platforms, we are social creatures and these tools not only extend and expand our “socialness”, the tools really serve to reinforce this fact about us. Second, we like to create. Look at the work you do… probably not 90% of it but the really creative, problem solving stuff. The creative stuff makes our blood move, we live for it! And it’s not just big things like an ad campaign, it can be, and often is, those small things where we create a simple work around that either saves time or money for us or someone else. When we do it, we want to shout it from the roof tops… or at least mention it in the break room or on the “socials”.
Something that overlays these two behaviors is another important reality, the notion of “real” learning as first presented to me by Charles Jennings. He said once that “Real Learning is experience, practice, conversation and reflection.” See the overlay? Creating happens in our work experiences and in practicing (deliberate or not), where we make better things and better ways. As sharing creatures we then desire affirmation or feedback in the form of conversation and bouncing it of a peer (reflection). Maybe too it’s just altruism but the creation must be shared to have benefits to others.
