Real leaders let other people be right in public, even when they had the idea first.

Credit feels scarce when you are young, so there is a real pull toward making sure everyone knows the idea was yours. Letting someone else carry it in front of the group costs you a little recognition and buys you something larger, which is people who bring you their thinking instead of guarding it. The ones who do this end up with more ideas flowing through them, not fewer.

Watch for the moment you want to say that you mentioned it first. Let it pass once this week and see what the room does with the space.