In my personal opinion the problem is a lack of arrogance throughout the rest of the world. In most geographic areas, you can clearly describe a specific set o

In my personal opinion the problem is a lack of arrogance throughout the rest of the world. In most geographic areas, you can clearly describe a specific set of actions that will result in a material creation of utility for huge numbers of people, and people will not only not support you in executing those actions, nor join you in building it, but they will tell you to get a grip on yourself and not to do it.[1] This isn't conjecture on my part, I've personally witnessed this. In fact, a study of startup markets shows that an extremely large percentage of founders in other cities are transplants from Silicon Valley (or lived there in the past). Why is that? I would bet that when it came to pure ability, 80% of the people reading this post have what it takes to potentially do something used by millions of people. Though we can't learn it, it is a matter of cold data where anyone who actually will do so is located. That data is very skewed geographically, and in my personal estimation, it is skewed toward Silicon Valley. This could probably be demonstrated. [1] articles about the "arrogance of Silicon Valley" can themselves be construed as being someone telling people to get a grip on themselves and to stop changing the world. "You're not special enough to change the world" means: stop doing it