You ARE a Thought Leader
Don’t deny the world of your genius because you didn’t come up with every idea from scratch.
It’s the combination of the genius you’ve absorbed from a bunch of different people, mixed with your own life experience, that makes YOU the creator someone loves to follow.
Your brain is a SUPERBABY of all the people you’ve been influenced by.
Tony Robbins X Oprah X Stacey Boehman X Elizabeth Gilbert X my Year 12 French Teacher = my superbaby brain.
So instead of thinking I don’t have anything valuable or new to say, I'm like Y’ALL BETTER STRAP IN TIGHT BECAUSE YOU’VE NEVER HEARD IT LIKE THIS BEFORE.
It should go without saying that plagiarism is never a vibe, but you can totally credit the original creator for their rightful intellectual property that inspired your musing AND still be a thought leader.
Actually, that's how thought leaders are created – by sharing YOUR particular mixture of superbaby genius with the world.